Intel Core i7-9700KF vs Intel Core i5-11400F

Core i7-9700KF vs Core i5-11400F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9700KF performs better than the Core i5-11400F. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11400F has 6 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has more threads than the Core i7-9700KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9700KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400F. Also, the Core i7-9700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11400F outputs less heat than Core i7-9700KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i7-9700KF has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.