Intel Core i5-10600KF vs Intel Core i7-6850K. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 10000 Intel Core i 6000
• Family
  Intel Core i5 Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
• Generation
  10 6
• Predecessor
  Intel Core i5-9600KF -
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  Intel Core i5-11600KF -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  4.1 GHz 3.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 6
• CPU Threads
  12 12
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.8 GHz 3.8 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  4.5 GHz No turbo

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  None no iGPU
• Graphics verification source
  https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000058487/processors.html -
• GPU Turbo
  - No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6850K and Intel Core i5-10600KF. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2133DDR4-2400
• PCIe lanes
  16 40
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-10600KF and Intel Core i7-6850K Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  100 °C 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  125 W 140 W
• TDP (PL2)
  182 W / 56 s -
• TDP down
  95 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-10600KF and Intel Core i7-6850K, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Comet Lake S Skylake S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  12 MB 15 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q2/2016
• Socket
  LGA 1200 LGA 2011-3
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d