Intel Core i7-6820HK vs Intel Core i7-5820K

Core i7-6820HK vs Core i7-5820K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5820K beats the Core i7-6820HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6820HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-5820K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6820HK has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6820HK. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5820K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6820HK. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-6820HK 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.

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 i7-6820HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.