Intel Core i7-10700K vs Intel Core i9-10900

Core i7-10700K vs Core i9-10900 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900 beats the Core i7-10700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-10700K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10900 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, the Core i9-10900 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700K. The Core i9-10900 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.