Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Core i7-9700F

Core i9-9900K vs Core i7-9700F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900K is faster than the Core i7-9700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700F in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i9-9900K has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700F. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700F 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-9900K 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.