Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Core i9-10920X

Core i9-11900K vs Core i9-10920X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11900K is faster than the Core i9-10920X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10920X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10920X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-11900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. According to our data, the Core i9-11900K and Core i9-10920X have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11900K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10920X CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.