Intel Core i5-10505 vs Intel Core i7-11850H

Core i5-10505 vs Core i7-11850H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11850H beats the Core i5-10505 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10505 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-11850H has slightly more cores than the Core i5-10505. Indeed, the Core i7-11850H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10505. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10505. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10505 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11850H. Despite this, the Core i7-11850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11850H outputs less heat than Core i5-10505 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10505 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.