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General information Core i5-8600K Core i5-6500
Launched Q4 2017 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket FCLGA1151-2 LGA1151
Series Name Intel Core i5 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Coffee Lake Skylake-S
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 11.1 %
Turbo Clock 4.3 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 16.3 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 65 W 31.6 %
Maximum supported RAM 128 GB 0 % 64 GB 50 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 9 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Integrated GPU Intel UHD Graphics 630 Intel HD Graphics 530
Performance Core i5-8600K Core i5-6500
Overall Score 50677 0 % 43680 13.8 %
Future Proof 62 % 0 % 49 % 21 %
Benchmark Score 6595 0 % 3640 44.8 %
Single Thread Score 2582.6 0 % 2103.7 18.5 %
Encrypting Data 3111.2 MB/s 0 % 1674 MB/s 46.2 %
Compressing Data 138.5 MB/s 0 % 75.5 MB/s 45.5 %
String objects sorting 17649.6 thousand/s 0 % 9408.2 thousand/s 46.7 %
Prime numbers generation 42.1 millions/s 0 % 27.7 millions/s 34.1 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 28235.1 millions/s 0 % 14829.3 millions/s 47.5 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23810.3 millions/s 0 % 12391.7 millions/s 48 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-8600K, Core i5-6500.

Average frames per second Core i5-8600K Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 105.2 FPS 84.4 FPS
High settings 168.4 FPS 135.1 FPS
Medium settings 210.4 FPS 168.9 FPS
Low settings 263.1 FPS 211.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 19.8 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i5-8600K Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 140.0 FPS 127.6 FPS
High settings 224.0 FPS 204.2 FPS
Medium settings 280.1 FPS 255.2 FPS
Low settings 350.1 FPS 319.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.9 %
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