Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i5-9400T

Core i5-11500 vs Core i5-9400T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11500 is faster than the Core i5-9400T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-11500 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-9400T. Also, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-9400T 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.