Intel Core i9-11900F vs Intel Core i5-13400

Core i9-11900F vs Core i5-13400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13400 beats the Core i9-11900F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11900F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13400 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i9-11900F that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Both the Core i9-11900F and Core i5-13400 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900F. The Core i5-13400 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 i9-11900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.