AMD Ryzen 7 5800 vs Intel Core i5-11600KF

Ryzen 7 5800 vs Core i5-11600KF specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800 is faster than the Core i5-11600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-11600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11600KF that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600KF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800. Also, the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11600KF CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5800 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600KF. The Ryzen 7 5800 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 Ryzen 7 5800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.