Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i7-10710U

Core i5-11500 vs Core i7-10710U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11500 is faster than the Core i7-10710U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10710U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10710U. Despite this, the Core i7-10710U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10710U 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.

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.