Intel Core i5-8600 vs Intel Core i5-11400F

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Intel Core i5-11400F

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 164.99

$ 150.09

$ 14.90 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4056 points

5669 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6549 points

8320 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3280 points

4844 points

47% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3148 points

4676 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Core i5-8600 and the Core i5-11400F? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.30 points

128.47 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4766 points

7380 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1335 points

1895 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5012 points

7590 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1461 points

1979 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

431st of 1,089

277th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8600 vs Core i5-11400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11400F beats the Core i5-8600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-11400F has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11400F. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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. For instance, the Core i5-8600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.