Intel Core i9-11900KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i9-11900KF vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8940HX is faster than the Core i9-11900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-11900KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-11900KF that 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 Ryzen 9 8940HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 9 8940HX 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-11900KF 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.