Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Core i5-1335U

Core i7-6850K vs Core i5-1335U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1335U beats the Core i7-6850K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6850K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1335U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-6850K has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6850K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1335U. Despite this, the Core i5-1335U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1335U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6850K. Despite this, the Core i7-6850K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1335U.

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