Intel Core i7-6700K vs Intel Core i3-1315U

Core i7-6700K vs Core i3-1315U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-1315U is faster than the Core i7-6700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1315U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6700K has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1315U. Despite this, the Core i3-1315U has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i3-1315U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6700K. The Core i3-1315U also has slightly 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 i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.