Intel Core i5-10600KF vs Intel Core i5-1240P

Core i5-10600KF vs Core i5-1240P specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1240P is faster than the Core i5-10600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-10600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-10600KF has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10600KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1240P. Also, the Core i5-10600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1240P outputs less heat than Core i5-10600KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1240P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10600KF. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.