Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i7-9700

Core i5-11500 vs Core i7-9700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700 is faster than the Core i5-11500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11500. Indeed, the Core i7-9700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11500. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 has more threads than the Core i7-9700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11500. Also, the Core i7-9700 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.

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.