Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs Intel Core i7-5820K

Core i7-6920HQ vs Core i7-5820K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5820K beats the Core i7-6920HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6920HQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-5820K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6920HQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6920HQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5820K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6920HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-6920HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6920HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5820K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-6920HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.