Intel Core i9 11900K vs i5 13400F

We compared two desktop CPUs: the 3.5 GHz Intel Core i9 11900K with 8-cores against the 2.5 GHz i5 13400F with 10-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
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Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
VS
13.4
(Bad)
Value Index
58.9
(Average)

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 13400F and 11900K
Advantages of Intel Core i9 11900K
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • 18% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.3 GHz vs 4.5 GHz)
  • Includes an integrated GPU Intel UHD Graphics 750
Advantages of Intel Core i5 13400F
  • Newer - released 1 year and 10 months later
  • Supports up to 192 GB DDR5-4800 RAM
  • Around 26.8 GB/s (54%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • More modern manufacturing process – 10 versus 14 nanometers
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench 2026 (Single) - 551
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) - 3442

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
11321
File compression 862.2 MB/sec 842.6 MB/sec
Clang compilation 89.5 Klines/sec 88.9 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 228.1 pages/sec 264.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 331.5 Mpixels/sec 348.3 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 241.7 pages/sec 237.2 pages/sec
Background blur 54.3 images/sec 54.8 images/sec
Photo processing 89.4 images/sec 88.3 images/sec
Ray tracing 20.7 Mpixels/sec 20.1 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 1034 & 805 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 88.9 GOps/sec 80 GOps/sec
Floating point math 52.7 GOps/sec 60.5 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 67M Primes/sec 81M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 37.9M Strings/sec 32.1M Strings/sec
Data encryption 15.8 GBytes/sec 16.6 GBytes/sec
Data compression 328.6 MBytes/sec 310.5 MBytes/sec
Physics 1047 Frames/sec 1408 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 23.3B Matrices/sec 19.8B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 4708 & 5089 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
213.02

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 6.6 PPW 12.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 89.6 PPW 174.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 199.2 PPW 383 PPW
Blender / Watt 1.7 PPW 3.09 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i9 11900K
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-20 (Zodiax)Cinebench 202495 / 819
πŸ“˜ 2025-02-26 (poweruser65535)Cinebench 2024102 / 870
πŸ“˜ 2024-10-15 (antoine)Cinebench 202489 / 698
Intel Core i5 13400F
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-07 (Andre)Cinebench 2026551 / 3442
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-14 (Kashitsu)Cinebench 2024103 / 874
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-09 (Andy)Geekbench 6 CPU2467 / 11248
πŸ“˜ 2024-11-04 (Shinigami1Ryuk)Cinebench 2024101 / 814
πŸ“˜ 2024-10-02 (SigmaKlein)Cinebench 2024100 / 821

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i9 11900K and i5 13400F

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Released March 16, 2021 January 3, 2023
Type Desktop Desktop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Rocket Lake Raptor Lake
Model number i9-11900K i5-13400F
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics 750 No
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 9 285K - Intel Core Ultra 5 225F
Intel CPU rating (127th and 123rd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 8 6
P-Threads 16 12
Base Frequency (P) 3.5 GHz 2.5 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.3 GHz 4.5 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores - 4
E-Threads - 4
Base Frequency (E) - 1.8 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) - 3.4 GHz
Total
Total Cores 8 10
Total Threads 16 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 35x 25x
Bus Bandwidth 8 GT/s -
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 1280K (per core)
L3 Cache 16MB (shared) 20MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes No

Package

Fabrication Process 14 nm 10 nm
TDP (PL1) 125 W 65 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) - 148 W
Socket LGA-1200 LGA-1700
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 100Β°C
Desktop CPU ranking (95th and 92nd place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 750 -
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz -
GPU Boost Clock 1300 MHz -
Shading Units 256 -
TMUs 64 -
ROPs 32 -
Execution Units 32 -
TGP 15 W -
iGPU FLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-3200 - DDR5-4800
- DDR4-3200
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 192 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 50 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i9 11900K official page Intel Core i5 13400F official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 20

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i9 11900k i5 13400f June 26, 2026 at 06:44 AM
i9 11900k and i5 13400f cpu best choice
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