AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i5-11600KF

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

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the Core i5-11600KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11600KF has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X. Also, the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11600KF CPU because of its slightly 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 Ryzen 7 5800X has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600KF. The Ryzen 7 5800X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.