Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Core i9-10900K

Core i7-11700 vs Core i9-10900K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900K beats the Core i7-11700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900K 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-11700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-11700 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. Despite this, the Core i9-10900K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-11700.

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