Intel Core i5-11400F vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Core i5-11400F vs Core i9-13900H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-13900H performs better than the Core i5-11400F. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-11400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400F. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-11400F and Core i9-13900H are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i5-11400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.