Intel Core i9-11900KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Core i9-11900KF vs Ryzen 5 6600H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900KF beats the Ryzen 5 6600H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 6600H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-11900KF has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 6600H. Indeed, the Core i9-11900KF has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 6600H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600H. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 6600H. Also, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 6600H 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. In terms of cache, the Core i9-11900KF has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 6600H. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.