**A Detailed Analysis of Intel Core i7-6700K and i7-7700K Processors**

In this article, we will delve into the performance differences between two high-performance processors from Intel: the i7-6700K and the i7-7700K. These CPUs are part of the 6th generation and 7th generation Core series, respectively, and have been widely used in laptops and desktops alike.

**Single-Core Performance**

When it comes to single-core performance, both processors deliver impressive results. However, the 6700K slightly edges out the 7700K in this regard. In Geekbench for example, the 6700K scored an average of 5080 points for single-core and 16,000 points for multi-core, while the 7700K scored 5265 points for single-core and 15,600 points for multi-core.

**Multi-Core Performance**

The story is different when it comes to multi-core performance. The 7700K takes a slight lead over the 6700K in this department. In Geekbench, the 7700K scored an average of 16,000 points for multi-core and 15,600 points for single-core, while the 6700K scored slightly lower, with 16,000 points for multi-core and 15,200 points for single-core.

**Benchmarking Tests**

To further understand the performance differences between these two processors, we ran several benchmarking tests. The first test was the Geekbench single-threaded benchmark, which is a widely used measure of CPU performance. In this test, the 7700K slightly outperformed the 6700K, scoring an average of 5265 points for single-core and 15,600 points for multi-core.

Another test we ran was the 7-zip benchmark, which measures compression speeds. The 7700K performed slightly better than the 6700K in this regard, with a total rating of 25,044 minutes compared to the 6700K's total rating of 20,454 minutes.

**Video Encoding**

We also tested both processors using Handbrake to encode a 500 megabyte MP4 video file from 1080p to 720p. The 7700K performed slightly better in this regard, encoding the video at an average speed of 45.3 frames per second compared to the 6700K's average speed of 43.7 frames per second.

**Temperature Comparison**

It's worth noting that both processors have different cooling solutions, which can affect their temperature performance. The 7700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the 6700K, but this also means it produces more heat. However, we did not test temperatures in this article due to the differences in cooling solutions between the two laptops.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, while both processors deliver impressive single-core performance, the 7700K takes a slight lead over the 6700K in multi-core performance. The performance differences are small, and it's hard to justify upgrading from one processor to another based on these results alone. However, if you're looking at a new laptop with either of these processors and can afford the extra cost, the 7700K is a good choice.

**Practical Differences**

We also asked ourselves whether we noticed any practical differences between using both laptops with these processors. The answer is no. Both laptops performed equally well in our daily usage, and there was no noticeable difference in performance or power consumption.

**Upgrade Incentive**

If you're running an older laptop with the 6700K processor, there's little incentive to upgrade to the newer 7700K processor unless you need to buy a new laptop anyway. The extra cost of the 7700K may not be worth it for most users. However, if you're in the market for a new laptop and want the latest and greatest processor, the 7700K is a good choice.

**Conclusion**

In this article, we have analyzed the performance differences between two high-performance processors from Intel: the i7-6700K and the i7-7700K. While both processors deliver impressive results, the 7700K takes a slight lead over the 6700K in multi-core performance. However, the performance differences are small, and it's hard to justify upgrading from one processor to another based on these results alone.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys Garrity and today we are going to compare the Intel skylake 6700 K CPU against the newer cabe you like 7700 K while both of these are desktop CPUs I'll be running benchmarks on both of them within two different laptops to see how they perform will then discuss the differences between them to help you find out which you should get in your laptop first let's note the similarities between these two chips both have four CPU cores with a threads are based on a 14 nanometer manufacturing process they also have the same 91 watt TDP with eight megabytes of cash available and both CPUs support up to 64 gigabytes of RAM with two memory channels and provide 16 PCI Express Lanes that's where the majority of important similarities ends so how do they differ the main difference is that the older 6700 K is clocked slightly lower at 4.0 gigahertz and can turbo up to 4.2 gigahertz while the newer 7700 K is clocked at 4.2 gigahertz again server up to 4 point 5 gigahertz it also overclocked slightly better how much of a performance difference does this make practically to test this I've run some CPU specific benchmarks on the two different laptops with these processors to find out both laptops are running Windows 10 with all available updates installed on an SSD and have 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory available the laptop with the 6700 K is running the memory at 2,000 133 megahertz what the 7700 k's memory is running at 2400 megahertz apart from this small difference the graphics cards are also different but that shouldn't matter is we're not comparing any games here so the other main difference is of course the CPUs which is what we're testing here so hopefully you can see the laptops are mostly similar in Cinebench the cpu score for the 6700 K was 836 while the 7700 K received 894 so a little improvement but an improvement nonetheless in the past bucks CPU benchmark the 6700 K received a CPU score of eleven thousand one hundred and eight interestingly the 7700 K received a score of ten thousand 667 which is actually slightly lower I ran this test a few times and got similar results the new a cabe you like CPU came behind but all the skylake CPU in terms of overall score on this test consistently in my 6700 hqv 7700 HQ CPU video we actually had the same result where the skylake CPU big julik so I'm not too sure what's being tested in this test is actually better on all the chip or more likely the particular benchmark hasn't properly been optimized for cable a chips despite this if we actually look at the number for the individual tests in most cases the 7700 K is actually slightly ahead so it could also be that this particular benchmark generates the final score in a strange manner in Geekbench for the 6700 cake of 5080 one for single core and 16,000 177 for multi-core 7700 cake or 5265 for the single core score and 16,000 347 for the multi-core score this was another interesting test although the single core performance in the 7700 K is higher as expected the multi-core performance result was much closer again this depends greatly on what the test actually does behind the scenes however I found it interesting that the results seem to favor single core performance over multi-core the 7-zip benchmark was also very close I ran up the 10 passes with the dictionary size of 32 megabytes the 6700 K got a total rating of 20 4548 minutes while the 7700 K could a total rating of 25 thousand and forty four nips so the 7700 K was only slightly faster a compression tasks here and then use handbrake to encode a 500 megabyte mp4 video file that I recorded from 1080p to 720p the 6700 K completed the job at an average speed of forty three point seven frames per second while the 7700 K complained it encoding the same file at forty five point three frames per second so the 7700 K was only slightly faster in the encoding test I didn't test temperatures here as the cooling solutions between both laptops were actually quite different so I didn't feel comfortable comparing the two as I didn't feel that it was very fair in general however the K V wake CPU was slightly warmer as expected based on its higher clock speeds assuming that your particular laptop could keep your temperatures in check and you could also attempt to perform overclocking however as this would increase power draw and heat it doesn't really seem as appealing in the laptop form factor when compared against overclocking in the desktop CPU and if you saw my recent 7700 H cuber 7700 K video where I did do overclocking I got less than a 4% performance increase throughout all these tests which i think is hardly worth it in a laptop anyway so based on all these tests the 7700 K appears to only be a very small incremental upgrade on average with all of these combined the 7700 K performed approximately two point one percent better on stock clock speeds when compared against the 6700 K kind of pathetic I figured that this would be the case after watching a bunch of 6700 K and 7700 K benchmark reviews previously when K V Lake was released however I wanted to test these CPUs in a laptop rather than desktop to get an idea of laptop performance and find out if they're possibly worth considering over other chips such as the HQ series overall I found the results a bit disappointing as the 6700 K was released in q3 of 2015 while the 7700 K came out in q1 of 2017 so despite being quite a lot new I it's not actually that much better hopefully the recent release of Verizon CPU starts to change this trend in weak performance increases that we've seen from Intel recently I didn't notice any practical difference between using the two laptops with either of these CPUs day to day so if you're looking at a new laptop the 6700 K is definitely still fine as the newer version only offers extremely small performance improvements at least in the workloads demonstrated here by all means if your new laptop has a 7700 K CPU and you can afford it then go for it but if you're looking at one that has a 6700 K and it's definitely still a good competitor and might be cheaper now due to it being considered last generation if the prices are pretty similar then I'd suggest going for the newer 7700 K otherwise you'll need to determine if the extra cost is worth it based on the small performance increases that we've measured in our tests here if you're already running at 6700 K there's basically no incentive to upgrade to the next generation unless you need to buy a new laptop anyway for other reasons will require cable eight specific features such as 4k decoding at the hardware level unless something drastically changes within the CPU area in the near future you probably won't need to upgrade your laptop in terms of CPU power for quite some time with either of these CPUs I hope this video is help you see the real-world differences in performance between these two CPUs be sure to leave a comment on the video and let me know which of these CPUs you pick and leave a like on the video if you found it useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this onehey guys Garrity and today we are going to compare the Intel skylake 6700 K CPU against the newer cabe you like 7700 K while both of these are desktop CPUs I'll be running benchmarks on both of them within two different laptops to see how they perform will then discuss the differences between them to help you find out which you should get in your laptop first let's note the similarities between these two chips both have four CPU cores with a threads are based on a 14 nanometer manufacturing process they also have the same 91 watt TDP with eight megabytes of cash available and both CPUs support up to 64 gigabytes of RAM with two memory channels and provide 16 PCI Express Lanes that's where the majority of important similarities ends so how do they differ the main difference is that the older 6700 K is clocked slightly lower at 4.0 gigahertz and can turbo up to 4.2 gigahertz while the newer 7700 K is clocked at 4.2 gigahertz again server up to 4 point 5 gigahertz it also overclocked slightly better how much of a performance difference does this make practically to test this I've run some CPU specific benchmarks on the two different laptops with these processors to find out both laptops are running Windows 10 with all available updates installed on an SSD and have 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory available the laptop with the 6700 K is running the memory at 2,000 133 megahertz what the 7700 k's memory is running at 2400 megahertz apart from this small difference the graphics cards are also different but that shouldn't matter is we're not comparing any games here so the other main difference is of course the CPUs which is what we're testing here so hopefully you can see the laptops are mostly similar in Cinebench the cpu score for the 6700 K was 836 while the 7700 K received 894 so a little improvement but an improvement nonetheless in the past bucks CPU benchmark the 6700 K received a CPU score of eleven thousand one hundred and eight interestingly the 7700 K received a score of ten thousand 667 which is actually slightly lower I ran this test a few times and got similar results the new a cabe you like CPU came behind but all the skylake CPU in terms of overall score on this test consistently in my 6700 hqv 7700 HQ CPU video we actually had the same result where the skylake CPU big julik so I'm not too sure what's being tested in this test is actually better on all the chip or more likely the particular benchmark hasn't properly been optimized for cable a chips despite this if we actually look at the number for the individual tests in most cases the 7700 K is actually slightly ahead so it could also be that this particular benchmark generates the final score in a strange manner in Geekbench for the 6700 cake of 5080 one for single core and 16,000 177 for multi-core 7700 cake or 5265 for the single core score and 16,000 347 for the multi-core score this was another interesting test although the single core performance in the 7700 K is higher as expected the multi-core performance result was much closer again this depends greatly on what the test actually does behind the scenes however I found it interesting that the results seem to favor single core performance over multi-core the 7-zip benchmark was also very close I ran up the 10 passes with the dictionary size of 32 megabytes the 6700 K got a total rating of 20 4548 minutes while the 7700 K could a total rating of 25 thousand and forty four nips so the 7700 K was only slightly faster a compression tasks here and then use handbrake to encode a 500 megabyte mp4 video file that I recorded from 1080p to 720p the 6700 K completed the job at an average speed of forty three point seven frames per second while the 7700 K complained it encoding the same file at forty five point three frames per second so the 7700 K was only slightly faster in the encoding test I didn't test temperatures here as the cooling solutions between both laptops were actually quite different so I didn't feel comfortable comparing the two as I didn't feel that it was very fair in general however the K V wake CPU was slightly warmer as expected based on its higher clock speeds assuming that your particular laptop could keep your temperatures in check and you could also attempt to perform overclocking however as this would increase power draw and heat it doesn't really seem as appealing in the laptop form factor when compared against overclocking in the desktop CPU and if you saw my recent 7700 H cuber 7700 K video where I did do overclocking I got less than a 4% performance increase throughout all these tests which i think is hardly worth it in a laptop anyway so based on all these tests the 7700 K appears to only be a very small incremental upgrade on average with all of these combined the 7700 K performed approximately two point one percent better on stock clock speeds when compared against the 6700 K kind of pathetic I figured that this would be the case after watching a bunch of 6700 K and 7700 K benchmark reviews previously when K V Lake was released however I wanted to test these CPUs in a laptop rather than desktop to get an idea of laptop performance and find out if they're possibly worth considering over other chips such as the HQ series overall I found the results a bit disappointing as the 6700 K was released in q3 of 2015 while the 7700 K came out in q1 of 2017 so despite being quite a lot new I it's not actually that much better hopefully the recent release of Verizon CPU starts to change this trend in weak performance increases that we've seen from Intel recently I didn't notice any practical difference between using the two laptops with either of these CPUs day to day so if you're looking at a new laptop the 6700 K is definitely still fine as the newer version only offers extremely small performance improvements at least in the workloads demonstrated here by all means if your new laptop has a 7700 K CPU and you can afford it then go for it but if you're looking at one that has a 6700 K and it's definitely still a good competitor and might be cheaper now due to it being considered last generation if the prices are pretty similar then I'd suggest going for the newer 7700 K otherwise you'll need to determine if the extra cost is worth it based on the small performance increases that we've measured in our tests here if you're already running at 6700 K there's basically no incentive to upgrade to the next generation unless you need to buy a new laptop anyway for other reasons will require cable eight specific features such as 4k decoding at the hardware level unless something drastically changes within the CPU area in the near future you probably won't need to upgrade your laptop in terms of CPU power for quite some time with either of these CPUs I hope this video is help you see the real-world differences in performance between these two CPUs be sure to leave a comment on the video and let me know which of these CPUs you pick and leave a like on the video if you found it useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this one\n"