Intel Core i5-11600KF vs Intel Core i7-11700K

Core i5-11600KF vs Core i7-11700K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700K is faster than the Core i5-11600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-11600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11600KF has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700K. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-11700K has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600KF. The Core i7-11700K also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.