Intel Core i5-11600K vs Intel Core i7-1165G7

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 199.00
$ 7.66 slightly less expensive
$ 206.66

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6621 points
109% significantly better overall score
3157 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9474 points
72% significantly better gaming score
5503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5722 points
129% significantly better multitasking score
2492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5531 points
132% significantly better heavy workload score
2381 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6323 points
118% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
2891 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

156.80 points
176% significantly higher Blender score
56.64 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11311 points
64% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
6862 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8447 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4847 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2118 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1713 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8549 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4854 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2208 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1716 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
39% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
15 W
733% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
Identical
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

215th of 1,089
517th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-11600K vs Core i7-1165G7 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600K is faster than the Core i7-1165G7. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1165G7 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-11600K has significantly more cores than the Core i7-1165G7. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-1165G7. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1165G7. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1165G7. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1165G7 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.

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

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