Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Core i9-10900F

Core i9-9900K vs Core i9-10900F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900F performs better than the Core i9-9900K. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900F has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-9900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10900F 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-10900F has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. The Core i9-10900F 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.