Intel Core i5-8600K vs Intel Core i7-8700

Core i5-8600K vs Core i7-8700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700 beats the Core i5-8600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-8700 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8700 outputs less heat than Core i5-8600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-8700 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-8600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.