Intel Core i5-11600K vs Intel Core i5-7400

Core i5-11600K vs Core i5-7400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11600K beats the Core i5-7400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11600K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-7400 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7400. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-7400 outputs less heat than Core i5-11600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-11600K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-7400. The Core i5-11600K also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.