Intel Core i5-11400T vs Intel Core i7-3930K

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 150.00
$ 130.00 significantly less expensive
$ 280.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3254 points
3669 points
12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4938 points
4984 points
0.93% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2740 points
3245 points
18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2640 points
3138 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

105.96 points
50% significantly higher Blender score
70.18 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5472 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2984 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1568 points
154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
616 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.3 GHz
3.2 GHz
146% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
3.8 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
271% significantly lower TDP
130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
40
100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
456% significantly more supported memory
23 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

522nd of 1,118
485th of 1,118

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-11400T vs Core i7-3930K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3930K is faster than the Core i5-11400T. Despite this, the Core i5-11400T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-3930K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400T. Also, the Core i7-3930K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11400T CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3930K CPU because of its 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 i5-11400T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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