Intel Core i5-8279U vs Intel Core i7-11370H

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2436 points

3785 points

55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3645 points

6030 points

65% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points

3116 points

50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2006 points

2986 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.56 points

72.14 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3618 points

5418 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points

1718 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3733 points

5498 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1205 points

1773 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.8 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

25% slightly lower TDP

35 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

640th of 1,089

452nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8279U vs Core i7-11370H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11370H beats the Core i5-8279U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8279U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. A Core i5-8279U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11370H CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-8279U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.