Intel Core i5-11600K vs Intel Core i9-7900X

Core i5-11600K vs Core i9-7900X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7900X is faster than the Core i5-11600K. Despite this, the Core i5-11600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7900X has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-11600K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7900X. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11600K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7900X CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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