Intel Core i5-9600K vs Intel Core i5-10400F

Core i5-9600K vs Core i5-10400F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10400F beats the Core i5-9600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-9600K 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. Also, the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10400F outputs less heat than Core i5-9600K 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.

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. For instance, the Core i5-9600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.