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

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

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

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10700F has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400F. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400F. Also, 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.

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 i5-11400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.