Intel Core i5-11300H vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3661 points
3722 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6054 points
8% slightly better gaming score
5577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2962 points
3201 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2840 points
3089 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.74 points
75.98 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

6581 points
9628 points
46% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4.7 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
15 W
133% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
Identical
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

468th of 1,089
459th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-11300H vs Core i7-1255U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1255U is faster than the Core i5-11300H. Despite this, the Core i5-11300H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1255U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-11300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11300H. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Core i5-11300H 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 i5-11300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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