Intel Core i9-11900KF vs Intel Core i7-11700F

Core i9-11900KF vs Core i7-11700F specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11900KF performs better than the Core i7-11700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700F in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700F. Also, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11700F outputs less heat than Core i9-11900KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-11900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.