Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Core i5-11500 vs Core i9-11950H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11950H performs better than the Core i5-11500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11950H 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 i5-11500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11950H. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11950H 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.