Intel Core i5-8600K vs Intel Core i5-10400F

Core i5-8600K vs Core i5-10400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10400F beats the Core i5-8600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-10400F has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10400F. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i5-10400F outputs less heat than Core i5-8600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-10400F 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. For instance, the Core i5-8600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.