Intel Core i9-9900KF vs Intel Core i3-9100F

Core i9-9900KF vs Core i3-9100F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9900KF performs better than the Core i3-9100F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-9100F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900KF has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-9100F has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-9100F. Both the Core i9-9900KF and Core i3-9100F have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-9100F outputs less heat than Core i9-9900KF 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 i9-9900KF has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-9100F. The Core i9-9900KF 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 i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.