Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i7-9700K

Core i7-8086K vs Core i7-9700K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9700K beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8086K has 6 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-8086K has more threads than the Core i7-9700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700K. Also, the Core i7-8086K 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-9700K has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8086K. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.