Intel Core i7-6700K vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 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

$ 274.86
$ 24.53 slightly less expensive
$ 299.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3497 points
12139 points
247% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5633 points
14231 points
152% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2866 points
11472 points
300% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2751 points
11341 points
312% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3242 points
10325 points
218% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

81.27 points
308.32 points
279% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4822 points
14478 points
200% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1442 points
2652 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4936 points
14998 points
203% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1506 points
2681 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.1 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
31% slightly 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

64 GiB
128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
640 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
24 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

482nd of 1,089
48th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2022 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
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 i7-6700K vs Core i5-13600K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600K 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13600K has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700K. Indeed, the Core i5-13600K has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600K. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6700K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-13600K CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-6700K. The Core i5-13600K 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 i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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