Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Core i5-1345U

Core i7-6850K vs Core i5-1345U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1345U is faster than the Core i7-6850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6850K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1345U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-6850K that 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 i5-1345U. Despite this, the Core i5-1345U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1345U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6850K. Despite this, the Core i7-6850K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1345U.

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.