Intel Core i7-6700K vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Core i7-6700K vs Core i5-14400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14400F beats the Core i7-6700K in overall performance. 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 i5-14400F has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-6700K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400F. Despite this, the Core i5-14400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. The Core i5-14400F also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.