Intel Core i5-11400F vs Intel Core i9-7900X

Core i5-11400F vs Core i9-7900X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-7900X performs better than the Core i5-11400F. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7900X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11400F. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11400F. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11400F CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.