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

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

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11900K performs better than the Core i9-10900F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900F 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 i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900F. Also, the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10900F outputs less heat than Core i9-11900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-11900K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F 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 i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.