Intel Core i5-10400F vs Intel Core i9-11900H

Core i5-10400F vs Core i9-11900H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11900H is faster than the Core i5-10400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-11900H has slightly more cores than the Core i5-10400F. Indeed, the Core i9-11900H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11900H. Despite this, the Core i9-11900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11900H outputs less heat than Core i5-10400F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-10400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.