Intel Core i5-11400 vs Intel Core i7-10870H

Core i5-11400 vs Core i7-10870H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400 is faster than the Core i7-10870H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10870H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10870H has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11400. Indeed, the Core i7-10870H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10870H 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. In terms of cache, the Core i5-11400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-11400.

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.