Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Core i5-11300H

Core i5-8500 vs Core i5-11300H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11300H beats the Core i5-8500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8500 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11300H. Indeed, the Core i5-8500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-11300H. Despite this, the Core i5-11300H has more threads than the Core i5-8500. The Core i5-11300H outputs less heat than Core i5-8500 thanks to a 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. For instance, the Core i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.