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

Core i5-11600K vs Core i9-9900K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9900K performs better than the Core i5-11600K. Despite this, the Core i5-11600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9900K has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11600K. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9900K. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9900K outputs less heat than Core i5-11600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-9900K has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600K. The Core i9-9900K also has slightly more L3 cache.

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