Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 298.15
$ 1.24 slightly less expensive
$ 299.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6267 points
12139 points
93% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7929 points
14231 points
79% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5718 points
11472 points
100% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5568 points
11341 points
103% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6944 points
10325 points
48% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

143.42 points
308.32 points
114% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8532 points
24268 points
184% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7060 points
14478 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points
2652 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7115 points
14998 points
110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points
2681 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.1 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
92% significantly lower TDP
125 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
Identical
128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
640 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 1,089
48th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-10700 vs Core i5-13600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600K is faster than the Core i7-10700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-10700 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700. Also, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-13600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13600K has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700. The Core i5-13600K also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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