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

Core i9-11900KF vs Core i9-10900F specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11900KF 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 i9-11900KF has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900F. Also, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10900F 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 info from our database shows that the Core i9-11900KF has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-11900KF.

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 i9-11900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.