Intel Core i5-11400T vs Intel Core i5-8279U

Core i5-11400T vs Core i5-8279U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400T is faster than the Core i5-8279U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8279U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-11400T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-8279U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8279U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8279U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400T. Also, the Core i5-8279U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8279U outputs less heat than Core i5-11400T thanks to a slightly 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 i5-11400T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.