Intel Core i5-9600K vs Intel Core i5-11400H

Compare Intel 9th 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?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4450 points

5137 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7080 points

7413 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3627 points

4443 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3488 points

4295 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4254 points

5385 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

94.07 points

107.17 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5629 points

6310 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1529 points

1799 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6212 points

6415 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1679 points

1824 points

8% 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

3.7 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

2.69 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

7.5 MiB

400% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

12 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

394th of 1,089

333rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-9600K vs Core i5-11400H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400H is faster than the Core i5-9600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9600K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-11400H has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11400H. Also, the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11400H outputs less heat than Core i5-9600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-11400H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-9600K. The Core i5-11400H also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-9600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.