Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Core i9-10900

Core i7-11700 vs Core i9-10900 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900 is faster than the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-11700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700. Also, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10900 outputs less heat than Core i7-11700 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 i7-11700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-11700.

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 i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.