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

Core i9-11900KF vs Core i7-14650HX benchmarks

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

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-11900KF has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11900KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14650HX. Also, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14650HX has more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900KF. 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 i9-11900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.