Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Core i5-10400F

Core i7-11700 vs Core i5-10400F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700 beats the Core i5-10400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-11700 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-10400F. Indeed, the Core i7-11700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10400F outputs less heat than Core i7-11700 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 i7-11700 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400F. The Core i7-11700 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.