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

Core i5-11600K vs Core i9-9900KF comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900KF 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 i9-9900KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11600K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9900KF 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. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-9900KF has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600K. The Core i9-9900KF 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.