Intel Core i5-10600KF vs Intel Core i9-10980HK

Core i5-10600KF vs Core i9-10980HK benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10600KF is faster than the Core i9-10980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10980HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10980HK has slightly more cores than the Core i5-10600KF. Indeed, the Core i9-10980HK has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10600KF. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10600KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10980HK 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 i9-10980HK has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10600KF. The Core i9-10980HK also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.