Intel Core i7-11700F vs Intel Core i5-12600KF

Core i7-11700F vs Core i5-12600KF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600KF beats the Core i7-11700F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600KF has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-11700F has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700F. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-11700F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600KF CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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