Intel Core i7-11700KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Core i7-11700KF vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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 i7-11700KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 9600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700KF. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 9600X 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700KF. The Ryzen 5 9600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.