Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Core i7-5930K

Core i7-7700K vs Core i7-5930K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5930K beats the Core i7-7700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-5930K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-7700K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5930K. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7700K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5930K 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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.