Intel Core i7-11700KF vs Intel Core i9-11980HK

Core i7-11700KF vs Core i9-11980HK comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700KF performs better than the Core i9-11980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11980HK in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11980HK. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i9-11980HK outputs less heat than Core i7-11700KF thanks to a significantly 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.