For those like me who prefer fewer but faster cores instead of a powerful group of small cores, here are a list of the fastest single-thread cpu that doesn’t implement hyper threading function.
These processors will be performing faster for general use such as web browsing or using desktop appliance word, outlook that are not fully written in order to support multi threading.
They are classified from fastest to slowest on the single thread score of cpubenchmark.com website rating.
2408- Intel Core i5-7600K @ 3.80GHz
2313- Intel Core i5-7600 @ 3.50GHz
2236- Intel Core i5-4690K @ 3.50GHz
2212- Intel Core i5-4690 @ 3.50GHz
2208- Intel Core i5-4690S @ 3.20GHz
2197- Intel Core i7-5675C @ 3.10GHz
2195- Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.40GHz
2164- Intel Core i5-5675C @ 3.10GHz
2158- Intel Core i5-7600T @ 2.80GHz
2151- Intel Core i5-4670 @ 3.40GHz
2151- Intel Pentium G3258 @ 3.20GHz
2147- Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz
2130- Intel Pentium G3470 @ 3.60GHz
2129- Intel Core i5-6600 @ 3.30GHz
2117- Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 @ 3.30GHz
2112- Intel Core i5-4590 @ 3.30GHz
2103- Intel Core i5-7440HQ @ 2.80GHz