Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Core i7-3770K

Core i7-6850K vs Core i7-3770K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6850K performs better than the Core i7-3770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-6850K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-3770K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6850K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3770K. Despite this, the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3770K 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.