Intel Core i5-10505 vs Intel Core i9-11900H

Core i5-10505 vs Core i9-11900H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900H 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-11900H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-10505 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10505. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10505 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 i5-10505 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 i5-10505 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.