That means that for the first time, we're recommending that everyone that picks this processor up goes for a pretty robust CPU cooler. Even using the exact same cooler in the exact same tests, the Intel Core i5-11600K peaks at 76☌, a huge jump over the 61☌ of the 10600K. And as a result, temperatures are much higher. The 11600K, on the other hand, goes all the way up to 180.74W – nearly twice as much power. Without putting the Intel Core i5-10600K through something like Prime95, it reaches a peak power consumption of just 95.15W. The Intel Core i5-11600K consumes way more power and gets way hotter than the Intel Core i5-10600K, and it's not even close. However, this added performance doesn't come for free. Now, for the Core i9-11900K, this was a big downgrade, as it forced Intel to move back down to an eight-core, 16-thread design, but for the Core i5, it leads to huge jumps in performance generation-over-generation, which we'll go into later. The main reason Intel did this was to be able to push clock speeds higher than it is currently able to on 7nm, which is important for PC gaming. However, unlike the past few generations, which were all based on 2015's Skylake architecture, Intel instead took the 7nm Ice Lake architecture and ported it back to 14nm, to a new core architecture it's calling Cypress Cove. The Intel Core i5-11600K is based on Intel's 11th-generation Rocket Lake-S architecture, yet again based on a 14nm manufacturing process.

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