Intel Core i7-6700K vs Intel Core i9-9900K

Core i7-6700K vs Core i9-9900K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900K 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900K has significantly more cores with 8 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9900K. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-9900K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6700K. The Core i9-9900K also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.