i5 6600k vs i7 6700k

[Ankit8879]

Am planning to upgrade my PC soon and I am confused between i5 6600k and i7 6700k. I'l be using my PC for gaming purposes only, no content creation and all that jazz. In fact Cities Skylines is my top priority. As I have learnt that Cities skylines is a CPU intensive game am wondering will hyper threading will be of any use to this game. There are no benchmarks on the internet comparing between these two processors, so I am a bit confused. If you guys have any information regarding the benchmarks comparing these processors on cities skylines please share. Thank you.

[Nacho Marco Segui]

 

[BbsMentos]

If you go for gaming only, pick the i5 6600k, you won't need more than 4 cpu cores 

[roughavoc]

6600k

[Morgan MLGman]

8 minutes ago, Sahara874 said:

I have a i5-6600k + msi r9 390x. in cities skylines I run smooth with a lot of mods(20+ or so).  

Although there is some loading time when launching the game. Usually the I5 is plenty of power for gaming.

 

EDIT: 

I don't know about hyperthreading, but I do know my game runs pretty smooth  

Hyperthreading makes the games smoother, as the frametimes are more consistent and do not drop when your CPU has HT

[racer243l]

For gaming only, i5 6600k. Cities Skylines isnt any problem even for older i5´s

[Nena Trinity]

33 minutes ago, BbsMentos said:

If you go for gaming only, pick the i5 6600k, you won't need more than 4 cpu cores 

Modern games disagree! :3

[Yoobsterlol]

10 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

Modern games disagree! :3

What do you mean? Most games don't even take advantage of more than 4 cores

[Nena Trinity]

1 minute ago, Yoobsterlol said:

What do you mean? Most games don't even take advantage of more than 4 cores

Look it up yourself at gamegpu.com even Overwatch uses 6!

[BbsMentos]

42 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

Look it up yourself at gamegpu.com even Overwatch uses 6!

Even if it uses 6 cores, it doesn't change much in fps, the bang for the buck is still on the i5 side

[Nena Trinity]

2 minutes ago, BbsMentos said:

Even if it uses 6 cores, it doesn't change much in fps, the bang for the buck is still on the i5 side

Always, less cores/threads is cheaper its same as buying GTX 970 over the 980!

[i_build_nanosuits]

53 minutes ago, Yoobsterlol said:

What do you mean? Most games don't even take advantage of more than 4 cores

that sentence would have been true 3 years ago..

[Yoobsterlol]

5 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

Always, less cores/threads is cheaper its same as buying GTX 970 over the 980!

6600k is a quad core too so it doesnt make much of a difference, games don't benifit much from hyper threading 

[Yoobsterlol]

2 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

that sentence would have been true 3 years ago..

what I meant was there's not much difference in fps using more than 4 cores. If you don't believe me there's an ltt video on it

[i_build_nanosuits]

2 minutes ago, Yoobsterlol said:

what I meant was there's not much difference in fps using more than 4 cores. If you don't believe me there's an ltt video on it

unless you are on a very high-end graphics solution and aim for 144FPS...

that video is how many years old already?

the one posted in the first reply is newer...you should watch it.

[Nena Trinity]

3 minutes ago, Yoobsterlol said:

6600k is a quad core too so it doesnt make much of a difference, games don't benifit much from hyper threading 

Cannon-lake will have quad-core as lowest so I doubt the i5s then will have 4-cores still...

[Yoobsterlol]

2 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

unless you are on a very high-end graphics solution and aim for 144FPS...

that video is how many years old already?

the one posted in the first reply is newer...you should watch it.

The video I'm talking about is only like a year old. Also I've already watched that other video before this thread existed, this also has nothing to do with what I said. I said that above 4 cores/threads there's not much of a difference, The 6600k and 6700k are both quad cores.

[Yoobsterlol]

6 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

Cannon-lake will have quad-core as lowest so I doubt the i5s then will have 4-cores still...

I can't wait until cannon lake is out! It just sounds badass

[not_Linus]

Just because a game will use more than 4 cores doesn't mean a quad core CPU will hinder your performance. Besides, the two CPU's asked about are both quad core CPU's, making an argument about more is not helpful to the op. In my opinion, any performance gain from a 6700k over a 6600k in gaming is not worth the extra money. There are still very few games that take advantage of HT, I have yet to play a game my 6600k can't handle.

[Yoobsterlol]

2 minutes ago, not_Linus said:

Just because a game will use more than 4 cores doesn't mean a quad core CPU will hinder your performance. Besides, the two CPU's asked about are both quad core CPU's, making an argument about more is not helpful to the op. In my opinion, any performance gain from a 6700k over a 6600k in gaming is not worth the extra money. There are still very few games that take advantage of HT, I have yet to play a game my 6600k can't handle.

Finally someone who knows what they're talking about and who actually talks about stuff that's relevent