Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i5-11500H

Core i7-10700 vs Core i5-11500H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10700 is faster than the Core i5-11500H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11500H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11500H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500H. Both the Core i7-10700 and Core i5-11500H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11500H outputs less heat than Core i7-10700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.