Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i7-10700T

Core i5-11500 vs Core i7-10700T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-10700T performs better than the Core i5-11500. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10700T has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10700T. Also, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10700T 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.