Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Core i5-11300H

Compare Intel 7th 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

3620 points

3661 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5762 points

6054 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2983 points

0.71% slightly better multitasking score

2962 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2864 points

0.85% slightly better heavy workload score

2840 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3473 points

4716 points

35% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.21 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

64.74 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5070 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4971 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1524 points

1687 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5174 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4876 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1596 points

1675 points

4% 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

4.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

35 W

171% 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

471st of 1,089

468th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7700K vs Core i5-11300H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11300H beats the Core i7-7700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i5-11300H outputs less heat than Core i7-7700K 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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.