Intel Core i5-11400F vs Intel Core i7-11850H

Core i5-11400F vs Core i7-11850H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11400F beats the Core i7-11850H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11850H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-11850H 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11850H. Despite this, the Core i7-11850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11850H outputs less heat than Core i5-11400F 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 i5-11400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.