Intel Core i5-11600KF vs Intel Core i7-10700F

Core i5-11600KF vs Core i7-10700F specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11600KF performs better than the Core i7-10700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10700F has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11600KF. Indeed, the Core i7-10700F has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600KF. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10700F. Also, the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10700F 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. In terms of cache, the Core i5-11600KF has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700F. Despite this, the Core i7-10700F has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-11600KF.

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