Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i9-7980XE

Core i5-11500 vs Core i9-7980XE comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11500 beats the Core i9-7980XE in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7980XE in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core i5-11500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7980XE 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.