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General information Core i7-6800K Core i5-8500
Launched Q2 2016 Q1 2018
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011-v3 FCLGA1151-2
Series Name Intel Core i7 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Broadwell-E Coffee Lake
Clock 3.4 GHz 0 % 3 GHz 11.8 %
Turbo Clock 3.8 GHz 7.3 % 4.1 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 6 0 %
Threads 12 0 % 6 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 W 0 % 65 W 53.6 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 32 kB Instruction
6 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 256 kB
6 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 15 MB
1 × 9 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Core i7-6800K Core i5-8500
Overall Score 51365 0 % 49879 2.9 %
Future Proof 53 % 15.9 % 63 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 6961 0 % 6190 11.1 %
Single Thread Score 2272 7.4 % 2452.6 0 %
Encrypting Data 2895.5 MB/s 4.5 % 3031.1 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 158.9 MB/s 0 % 133.1 MB/s 16.3 %
String objects sorting 21164.8 thousand/s 0 % 16473 thousand/s 22.2 %
Prime numbers generation 48.1 millions/s 0 % 36.1 millions/s 25 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 37425.5 millions/s 0 % 26710.3 millions/s 28.6 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 24368.7 millions/s 0 % 22536 millions/s 7.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i7-6800K, Core i5-8500.

Average frames per second Core i7-6800K Core i5-8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 107.2 FPS 102.8 FPS
High settings 171.5 FPS 164.5 FPS
Medium settings 214.4 FPS 205.6 FPS
Low settings 268.0 FPS 257.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 4.1 %

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 i7-6800K Core i5-8500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 140.9 FPS 138.3 FPS
High settings 225.5 FPS 221.3 FPS
Medium settings 281.8 FPS 276.6 FPS
Low settings 352.3 FPS 345.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.9 %
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