Intel Core i5-11300H vs Intel Core i7-5960X

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 8 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
5462 points
49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6054 points
6552 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2962 points
5074 points
71% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2840 points
4955 points
74% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4716 points
8668 points
83% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.74 points
141.38 points
118% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4971 points
7331 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1687 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1235 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4876 points
7412 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1675 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1302 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
300% significantly lower TDP
140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

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
298th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-11300H vs Core i7-5960X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5960X beats the Core i5-11300H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11300H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-5960X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11300H. Indeed, the Core i7-5960X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-11300H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11300H. A Core i5-11300H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5960X CPU because of its 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 i5-11300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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