Intel Core i5-11500H vs Intel Core i7-6950X

Core i5-11500H vs Core i7-6950X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11500H is faster than the Core i7-6950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6950X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-6950X has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-11500H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11500H. Despite this, the Core i5-11500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11500H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6950X 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 i5-11500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.