Intel Core i7-6700K vs Intel Core i7-3770

Core i7-6700K vs Core i7-3770 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700K is faster than the Core i7-3770. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3770. Also, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3770 outputs less heat than Core i7-6700K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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.