Intel Core i7-10700K vs Intel Core i7-9700F

Core i7-10700K vs Core i7-9700F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10700K is faster than the Core i7-9700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700F in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-10700K has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700F. Also, the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700F 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-10700K 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 i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.