Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Core i5-13400

Core i7-8700K vs Core i5-13400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13400 is faster than the Core i7-8700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13400 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-8700K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. The Core i5-13400 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.