Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Core i5-10400F

Core i7-8700K vs Core i5-10400F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700K beats the Core i5-10400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10400F outputs less heat than Core i7-8700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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 i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.