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Core i5-6500TE vs Core i7-8700K

Core i5-6500TE vs Core i7-8700K: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — Core i7-8700K outperforms Core i5-6500TE on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both CPUs to compare value. The better performing Core i7-8700K is 725 days newer than Core i5-6500TE.

Advantages of Core i5-6500TE

  • Consumes up to 63% less energy than Intel Core i7-8700K - 35 vs 95 Watts

Advantages of Core i7-8700K

  • Performs up to 6% better in Resident Evil 4 than Core i5-6500TE - 181 vs 170 FPS
  • Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Core i5-6500TE - 12 vs 4 threads
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Resident Evil 4

Resident Evil 4

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Max

Intel Core i5-6500TE Logo
Core i5-6500TE

Desktop • Oct 11th, 2015


FPS

170

94%

Value, £/FPS

Price, £

Intel Core i7-8700K Logo
Core i7-8700K

Desktop • Oct 5th, 2017


FPS

181

100%

Value, £/FPS

£0.98/FPS

100%

Price, £

£176.66

100%

FPS and Value Winner

Intel Core i7-8700K Retail - (1151/Hex Core/3.70GHz/12MB/Coffee Lake/95W/Graphics)

Buy for £176.66 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 421 minutes ago

My Games

With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Max

Intel Core i5-6500TE Logo
Core i5-6500TE

Desktop • Oct 11th, 2015

Intel Core i7-8700K Logo
Core i7-8700K

Desktop • Oct 5th, 2017

Geekbench 5 Benchmarks

Intel Core i5-6500TE Logo
Core i5-6500TE

Desktop • Oct 11th, 2015


Single-Core

1118

71%

Multi-Core

3081

48%

Intel Core i7-8700K Logo
Core i7-8700K

Desktop • Oct 5th, 2017


Single-Core

1582

100%

Multi-Core

6443

100%

Intel Core i5-6500TE Logo

Core i5-6500TE

vs
Intel Core i7-8700K Logo

Core i7-8700K

Oct 11th, 2015
Oct 5th, 2017
Core i5Core i7
SkylakeCoffee Lake
Intel Socket 1151Intel Socket 1151
Desktop
Desktop
4
6
4
12
2.3 GHz
3.7 GHz
3.3 GHz
4.7 GHz
35 W
95 W
14 nm14 nm
23.0x
37.0x
HD Graphics 530UHD Graphics 630
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