Core i9-9900K vs i7-9700F
Description
Both models i9-9900K and i7-9700F are based on Coffee Lake architecture.
Coffee Lake is the second refinement of Intel’s 14nm (Tri-Gate) technology. While it uses LGA1151 socket, it is incompatible with previous generations due to electrical changes in socket’s pins so these CPUs require Z370 chipset. This kind of generation introduced more cores in every range to compete with new AMD’s architecture. Coffee Lake uses DDR4 memory at 2400MHz for i3 and at 2666MHz for i5, i7 CPUs plus iGPU frequency has been increased 50MHz with respect to previous generation.
Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i9-9900K gets a score of 400.8 k points while the i7-9700F gets 269.9 k points.
Summarizing, the i9-9900K is 1.5 times faster than the i7-9700F. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
Coffee Lake is the second refinement of Intel’s 14nm (Tri-Gate) technology. While it uses LGA1151 socket, it is incompatible with previous generations due to electrical changes in socket’s pins so these CPUs require Z370 chipset. This kind of generation introduced more cores in every range to compete with new AMD’s architecture. Coffee Lake uses DDR4 memory at 2400MHz for i3 and at 2666MHz for i5, i7 CPUs plus iGPU frequency has been increased 50MHz with respect to previous generation.
Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i9-9900K gets a score of 400.8 k points while the i7-9700F gets 269.9 k points.
Summarizing, the i9-9900K is 1.5 times faster than the i7-9700F. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
Specs
CPUID
906ed
906ed
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Coffee Lake-S
Base frecuency
3.6 GHz
3 GHz
Boost frecuency
5 GHz
4.7 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
8/16
8/8
TDP
95 W
65 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
16384 kB
12288 kB
Date
October 2018
April 2019
Mean monothread perf.
81.91k points
60.93k points
Mean multithread perf.
529.32k points
269.85k points
Non-optimized benchmark
The benchmark in Mode 0 (FPU) measures cpu performance with non-optimized software. It uses the basic µinstructions from the i386 architecture with the i387 floating point unit. This mode is compatible with all CPUs so it's practical to compare very different CPUs
Monothread
i9-9900K
i7-9700F
Test#1 (Integers)
5k
4.67k (x0.93)
Test#2 (FP)
20.22k
17.16k (x0.85)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.54k
5.7k (x0.87)
Test#1 (Memory)
13.78k
14.37k (x1.04)
TOTAL
45.53k
41.9k (x0.92)
Multithread
i9-9900K
i7-9700F
Test#1 (Integers)
36.39k
26.31k (x0.72)
Test#2 (FP)
166.55k
97.53k (x0.59)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
54.92k
31.53k (x0.57)
Test#1 (Memory)
8.96k
8.94k (x1)
TOTAL
266.82k
164.31k (x0.62)
SSE3 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.
Monothread
i9-9900K
i7-9700F
Test#1 (Integers)
18.03k
16.8k (x0.93)
Test#2 (FP)
25.98k
24.08k (x0.93)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.86k
6.06k (x0.88)
Test#1 (Memory)
14.5k
13.98k (x0.96)
TOTAL
65.37k
60.93k (x0.93)
Multithread
i9-9900K
i7-9700F
Test#1 (Integers)
131.34k
92.79k (x0.71)
Test#2 (FP)
204.76k
135.13k (x0.66)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
55.74k
33.29k (x0.6)
Test#1 (Memory)
8.99k
8.64k (x0.96)
TOTAL
400.83k
269.85k (x0.67)
Performance/W
i9-9900K
i7-9700F
Test#1 (Integers)
1383 points/W
1428 points/W
Test#2 (FP)
2155 points/W
2079 points/W
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
587 points/W
512 points/W
Test#1 (Memory)
95 points/W
133 points/W
TOTAL
4219 points/W
4152 points/W
Performance/GHz
i9-9900K
i7-9700F
Test#1 (Integers)
3606 points/GHz
3575 points/GHz
Test#2 (FP)
5196 points/GHz
5124 points/GHz
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
1372 points/GHz
1290 points/GHz
Test#1 (Memory)
2900 points/GHz
2975 points/GHz
TOTAL
13074 points/GHz
12964 points/GHz
Monothread performance graph
Monothread performance graphics gives the performance vs time. They are useful to measure the time it takes to the CPU to reach the maximum performance.
Usually, CPU's performance will be steady during these tests but if it has a slow frequency strategy, the first samples will show a lower score.
Usually, CPU's performance will be steady during these tests but if it has a slow frequency strategy, the first samples will show a lower score.
Test#1 (Integers) [points vs time]
Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]
Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]
Multithread performance graph
Multithread graphs measure the performance against a heavy load during certain time.
If CPU's TDP doesn't limit the frequency and the machine is properly cooled, performance should remain steady vs time. Otherwise, the performance score will oscillate or decrease over time.
If CPU's TDP doesn't limit the frequency and the machine is properly cooled, performance should remain steady vs time. Otherwise, the performance score will oscillate or decrease over time.
Test#1 (Integers) [points vs time]
Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]
Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]
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