Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Core i5-11500H

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 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

5173 points

5529 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6493 points

7840 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4746 points

4827 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4636 points

4665 points

0.63% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

118.88 points

125.39 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6166 points

6177 points

0.18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1458 points

1783 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.21 GHz

2.9 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

Identical

45 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

576 KiB

12% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

328th of 1,089

290th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-10870H vs Core i5-11500H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11500H performs better than the Core i7-10870H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10870H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10870H 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11500H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H 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.

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.