Intel Core i5-11400F vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Core i5-11400F vs Core i9-11950H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11950H performs better than the Core i5-11400F. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11950H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400F. Both the Core i5-11400F and Core i9-11950H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11950H 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.