Intel Core i7-10700KF vs Intel Core i5-10400F

Core i7-10700KF vs Core i5-10400F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700KF beats the Core i5-10400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10700KF has slightly more cores than the Core i5-10400F. Indeed, the Core i7-10700KF has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10400F. Also, the Core i7-10700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10400F outputs less heat than Core i7-10700KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-10700KF has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400F. The Core i7-10700KF also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-10700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.