Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i3-1125G4

Core i5-11500 vs Core i3-1125G4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11500 is faster than the Core i3-1125G4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1125G4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-11500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-1125G4 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1125G4. The Core i3-1125G4 outputs less heat than Core i5-11500 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 i5-11500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.