Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Core i5-11400H

Core i7-10870H vs Core i5-11400H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10870H beats the Core i5-11400H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10870H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11400H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11400H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11400H outputs less heat than Core i7-10870H thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-11400H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-11400H.

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 i7-10870H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.