Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Core i9-11900K vs Core i5-14600K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14600K beats the Core i9-11900K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11900K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-14600K has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900K. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11900K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. Both the Core i9-11900K and Core i5-14600K have the same clock speed. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14600K has more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900K. The Core i5-14600K also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.