Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Core i7-8700K

Core i7-6850K vs Core i7-8700K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700K 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6850K. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8700K 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-6850K also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.