Intel Core i5-11600K vs Intel Core i5-10400F

Core i5-11600K vs Core i5-10400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600K is faster than the Core i5-10400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10400F. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10400F outputs less heat than Core i5-11600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.