Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Core i7-11700F

Core i9-9900K vs Core i7-11700F specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700F performs better than the Core i9-9900K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700F. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11700F outputs less heat than Core i9-9900K 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 i7-11700F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9900K. 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.