Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i7-9700K

Core i5-11500 vs Core i7-9700K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9700K beats the Core i5-11500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11500 that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 has more threads than the Core i7-9700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11500. Also, the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700K CPU because of its 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.