Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Core i5-1240P

Core i7-6850K vs Core i5-1240P specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6850K performs better than the Core i5-1240P. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6850K. Indeed, the Core i5-1240P has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-6850K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6850K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6850K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1240P. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1240P outputs less heat than Core i7-6850K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1240P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6850K. Despite this, the Core i7-6850K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1240P.

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 i7-6850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.