Intel Core i7-10700K vs Intel Core i7-10700F

Core i7-10700K vs Core i7-10700F benchmarks

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

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700F. Also, the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10700F outputs less heat than Core i7-10700K 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 and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.