Intel Core i5-11400 vs Intel Core i7-13700

Core i5-11400 vs Core i7-13700 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13700 performs better than the Core i5-11400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700 has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-11400 that has 6 cores. 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 i7-13700. Despite this, the Core i7-13700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11400. The Core i7-13700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.