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

Core i7-11700KF vs Core i5-12600K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600K is faster than the Core i7-11700KF. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700KF in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12600K has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-11700KF that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-11700KF CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-12600K CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-11700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.