Intel Core i7-6700K vs Intel Core i7-9700T

Core i7-6700K vs Core i7-9700T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700T is faster than the Core i7-6700K. Despite this, the Core i7-6700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700T has significantly more cores with 8 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 i7-9700T. Despite this, the Core i7-9700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700T outputs less heat than Core i7-6700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.