Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core i9-9900K

Core i5-11600 vs Core i9-9900K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900K is faster than the Core i5-11600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-9900K has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11600. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9900K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-11600 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-11600.

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 i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.