Intel Core i7-11700KF vs Intel Core i9-10900KF

Core i7-11700KF vs Core i9-10900KF specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900KF 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900KF 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700KF. Also, the Core i9-10900KF 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-11700KF has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-10900KF has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-11700KF.

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.