Intel Core i9-11900F vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Core i9-11900F vs Core i7-14650HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14650HX performs better than the Core i9-11900F. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more cores with 16 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 i9-11900F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14650HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14650HX has more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900F. The Core i7-14650HX also has significantly 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.