Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i5-8400

Core i5-11500 vs Core i5-8400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11500 beats the Core i5-8400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8400 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-11500 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11500. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i5-11500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.