Intel Core i5-11400 vs Intel Core i7-10700F

Core i5-11400 vs Core i7-10700F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700F beats the Core i5-11400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10700F has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10700F. Despite this, the Core i7-10700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-11400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700F. Despite this, the Core i7-10700F has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-11400.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.