Intel Core i7-6700 vs Intel Core i5-11300H

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 4 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

3117 points

3661 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4991 points

6054 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2559 points

2962 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2457 points

2840 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2828 points

4716 points

66% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.31 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

64.74 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4052 points

4971 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1252 points

1687 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4207 points

4876 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1320 points

1675 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.4 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

523rd of 1,089

468th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6700 vs Core i5-11300H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11300H beats the Core i7-6700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Core i5-11300H outputs less heat than Core i7-6700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.