Intel Core i5-11400 vs Intel Core i5-11500H

Core i5-11400 vs Core i5-11500H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11500H beats the Core i5-11400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11500H. Despite this, the Core i5-11500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11500H outputs less heat than Core i5-11400 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 i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.