Intel Core i7-6700T vs Intel Core i7-5820K

Core i7-6700T vs Core i7-5820K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5820K beats the Core i7-6700T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-5820K has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700T. Indeed, the Core i7-5820K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700T. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5820K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6700T. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-6700T CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5820K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-6700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.