Intel Core i5 10600K Comet Lake vs. Core i5 Skylake / Haswell / Sandy Bridge

There were a lot of benchmarks run, but by now you get the point. For those wanting to dive into all 250 benchmark results for this historical look at the Intel Core i5 performance can see this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.

When taking the geometric mean of all 250 benchmarks, the Core i5 10600K was 2.61x the speed of the Core i5 2500K or 1.6x the speed of the Core i5 7600K Kabylake processor, with those former Core i5 CPUs being quad-core parts compared to the i5-10600K sporting six cores plus HT. Those wanting to further look at all the data points in full for weighing any possible Core i5 upgrades can see the data on OpenBenchmarking.org for this fun reference comparison.