Intel Core i7-6700 vs Intel Core i5-10400F

Core i7-6700 vs Core i5-10400F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10400F beats the Core i7-6700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-10400F has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700. Indeed, the Core i5-10400F has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10400F. Despite this, the Core i5-10400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i5-10400F has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700. The Core i5-10400F also has significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.