Intel Core i9-11900KF vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Core i9-11900KF vs Core i9-13900H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11900KF performs better than the Core i9-13900H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13900H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i9-11900KF that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900KF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900H. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-13900H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.