Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core i5-13400

Core i7-11700K vs Core i5-13400 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13400 performs better than the Core i7-11700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13400 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-11700K that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-11700K. The Core i5-13400 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. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.