Intel Core i7-10700F vs Intel Core i9-7900X

Core i7-10700F vs Core i9-7900X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7900X is faster than the Core i7-10700F. Despite this, the Core i7-10700F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-10700F that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700F. Despite this, the Core i7-10700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10700F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-10700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.