Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Core i7-11700K vs Ryzen 5 8400F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700K performs better than the Ryzen 5 8400F. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700K. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8400F outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K 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 Ryzen 5 8400F has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700K. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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