i5 or i7??

[XeliGamer]

Hello, I currently use a 11600K i5 CPU for gaming after a day of work and it's performance is fantastic, it's quick and all, but I'm curious what the difference between the 11700KF i7 CPU and the 11600K i5 CPU is because Userbench claims it's only a +2 percent difference, which isn't much at all .

[RONOTHAN##]

Just now, XeliGamer said:

Userbench claims it's only a +2 percent difference,

Friends don't let friends use Userbenchmark. It's comparisons are hilariously unreliable and inconsistent across the site (there's one set of comparisons, i believe 7700k, 5960x, and i3 9100, where the 7700k is faster than the 5960X, the 5960X is faster than the 9100F, and the 9100F is faster than the 7700k. Specifics are probably wrong, but there's at least one comparison like that).

 

Still, for gaming the difference between the i5 and i7 is not much at all. Games don't really use more than 6 cores, so unless you do something for work that uses 8 cores or more going for the 11700k isn't worth it. 

[191x7]

Userbench is not reference for anything.

 

In the 11 series, the i7 models have more cores than i5 models. The same cores, just more of them.

Your i5 has 6 physical cores (with hyper-threading, resulting with 12 threads) . The i7 has 8 cores (16 threads).

 

In games and software that can utilize more than 6 cores, the i7 is faster.

 

F behind the model number means it has no integrated graphics. K means it's overclockable.

So your i5 does have an Intel iGPU, the i7 11700KF does not.

[Akira Shimazu]

23 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Friends don't let friends use Userbenchmark. It's comparisons are hilariously unreliable and inconsistent across the site (there's one set of comparisons, i believe 7700k, 5960x, and i3 9100, where the 7700k is faster than the 5960X, the 5960X is faster than the 9100F, and the 9100F is faster than the 7700k. Specifics are probably wrong, but there's at least one comparison like that).

 

Still, for gaming the difference between the i5 and i7 is not much at all. Games don't really use more than 6 cores, so unless you do something for work that uses 8 cores or more going for the 11700k isn't worth it. 

agree. only for game. let say you want to stream or  opening multiple shit while game. or editing. then 8 core is amazing. but even tho 6 core is enough for everyhting

[XeliGamer]

2 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Friends don't let friends use Userbenchmark. It's comparisons are hilariously unreliable and inconsistent across the site (there's one set of comparisons, i believe 7700k, 5960x, and i3 9100, where the 7700k is faster than the 5960X, the 5960X is faster than the 9100F, and the 9100F is faster than the 7700k. Specifics are probably wrong, but there's at least one comparison like that).

 

Still, for gaming the difference between the i5 and i7 is not much at all. Games don't really use more than 6 cores, so unless you do something for work that uses 8 cores or more going for the 11700k isn't worth it. 

That is also true; 6 cores are sufficient for gaming; for the games I play, cpu usage only reaches around 40% and never exceeds that.

[Queen Chrysalis]

7 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Friends don't let friends use Userbenchmark. It's comparisons are hilariously unreliable and inconsistent across the site (there's one set of comparisons, i believe 7700k, 5960x, and i3 9100, where the 7700k is faster than the 5960X, the 5960X is faster than the 9100F, and the 9100F is faster than the 7700k. Specifics are probably wrong, but there's at least one comparison like that).

 

Still, for gaming the difference between the i5 and i7 is not much at all. Games don't really use more than 6 cores, so unless you do something for work that uses 8 cores or more going for the 11700k isn't worth it. 

 

5 hours ago, XeliGamer said:

That is also true; 6 cores are sufficient for gaming; for the games I play, cpu usage only reaches around 40% and never exceeds that.

It's more like 6 threads.  And even then, thread 0 through 2 or 3 are usually the only ones doing any serious heavy lifting save for a few known outliers, and threads 3 or 4 through 5 or 7 might be doing some moderate and/or subsidiary tasks, hence why 90 percent of games are still totally unimpeded by hyperthreaded quad cores (I know some aren't, but again, known outliers).  So yeah hyper threaded hexacores are well-capable with resources to spare, as a subsidiary game-process that only loads a core or thread to 15% sharing a thread with iCUE or a browser tab won't change your framerate at all.