Intel Core i5-11400 vs Intel Core i7-6600U

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.99
$ 2619.01 significantly less expensive
$ 2749.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5682 points
387% significantly better overall score
1166 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8370 points
257% significantly better gaming score
2340 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4847 points
464% significantly better multitasking score
858 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4675 points
470% significantly better heavy workload score
820 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

144.07 points
523% significantly higher Blender score
23.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
66% significantly more pcie lanes
12

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

276th of 1,089
908th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
6th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-11400 vs Core i7-6600U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400 is faster than the Core i7-6600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11400 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6600U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6600U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. Also, the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-6600U 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.

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