Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i7-8700

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-8700

Price

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$ 199.00

$ 150.25

$ 48.75 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5262 points

10% slightly better overall score

4771 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points

16% slightly better gaming score

6744 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4465 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

4149 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4309 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

4005 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8307 points

71% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

4845 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.62 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

109.37 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7631 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5865 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1954 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1478 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7239 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5964 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2003 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1536 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

3.2 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

Identical

4.6 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

368th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2017 November

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 i7-8700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11500 is faster than the Core i7-8700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11500. In addition, both chips have the same 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.