Intel Core i9-10900K vs Intel Core i9-11900F

Core i9-10900K vs Core i9-11900F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900F beats the Core i9-10900K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-10900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10900K has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i9-11900F that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900F. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900F. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11900F outputs less heat than Core i9-10900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-11900F has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. Despite this, the Core i9-10900K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-11900F.

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 i9-10900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.