Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Core i5-13400F

Core i9-9900K vs Core i5-13400F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13400F is faster than the Core i9-9900K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13400F has slightly more cores than the Core i9-9900K. Indeed, the Core i5-13400F has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-9900K. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9900K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400F. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-13400F also has slightly 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.