Intel Core i7-11700KF vs Intel Core i9-10850K

Core i7-11700KF vs Core i9-10850K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10850K beats the Core i7-11700KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10850K has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-11700KF has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700KF. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-11700KF and Core i9-10850K are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-10850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-11700KF has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10850K. Despite this, the Core i9-10850K 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.