Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i9-9900

Core i7-8086K vs Core i9-9900 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8086K beats the Core i9-9900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9900 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8086K. Indeed, the Core i9-9900 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8086K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9900. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i9-9900 outputs less heat than Core i7-8086K 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 Core i9-9900 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8086K. The Core i9-9900 also has slightly 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 i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.