Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Core i5-11400H

Core i7-6700HQ vs Core i5-11400H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11400H beats the Core i7-6700HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700HQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11400H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6700HQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700HQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11400H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6700HQ. Also, the Core i5-11400H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11400H outputs less heat than Core i7-6700HQ thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.