Intel Core i7-6700K vs Intel Core i7-4770

Core i7-6700K vs Core i7-4770 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700K is faster than the Core i7-4770. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4770 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4770. Also, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4770 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.