Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Core i7-3770K vs Core i5-13600K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600K beats the Core i7-3770K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13600K has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3770K. Indeed, the Core i5-13600K has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3770K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13600K. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770K 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 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. Indeed, the Core i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.