Intel Core i7-6700K vs AMD EPYC 7543P

Core i7-6700K vs EPYC 7543P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6700K beats the EPYC 7543P in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 7543P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 7543P has significantly more cores with 32 cores whereas the Core i7-6700K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6700K has a much higher clock speed compared to the EPYC 7543P. Also, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6700K CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 7543P CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the EPYC 7543P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6700K. The EPYC 7543P 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.