Intel Core i7-11700F vs Intel Core i9-7900X

Core i7-11700F vs Core i9-7900X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700F beats the Core i9-7900X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-11700F has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700F. Despite this, the Core i7-11700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-11700F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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