Intel Core i9-10850K vs Intel Core i9-11900K

Core i9-10850K vs Core i9-11900K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10850K is faster than the Core i9-11900K. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10850K has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-11900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900K. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K 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 i9-11900K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10850K. Despite this, the Core i9-10850K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-11900K.

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 i9-10850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.