Intel Core i7-11700KF vs Intel Core i5-13400F

Core i7-11700KF vs Core i5-13400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13400F beats the Core i7-11700KF in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700KF in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13400F has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-11700KF has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400F. Also, the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-11700KF has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13400F. Despite this, the Core i5-13400F has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-11700KF.

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