Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i5-9500

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-9500

Price

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$ 199.00

$ 149.00

$ 50.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5262 points

34% slightly better overall score

3906 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points

22% slightly better gaming score

6425 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4465 points

42% slightly better multitasking score

3132 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4309 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

3003 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.62 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

95.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7631 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4834 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1954 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1444 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7239 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4973 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2003 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1468 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

3 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

314th of 1,089

441st of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11500 vs Core i5-9500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11500 beats the Core i5-9500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9500 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-9500 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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.