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

Core i5-11600KF vs Core i5-10400F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600KF 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. Also, the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10400F outputs less heat than Core i5-11600KF thanks to a 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 i5-11600KF has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400F. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i5-11600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.