Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i7-7820X

Core i5-11500 vs Core i7-7820X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7820X is faster than the Core i5-11500. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-7820X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7820X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11500. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7820X CPU because of its 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.