Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Core i5-1145G7

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

17% slightly better overall score

3084 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5762 points

9% slightly better gaming score

5273 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2983 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

2455 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2864 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

2345 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.21 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

59.23 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5070 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4776 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1524 points

1636 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5174 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4764 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1596 points

1653 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.2 GHz

61% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

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

28 W

239% 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

471st of 1,089

528th 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 i5-1145G7 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7700K beats the Core i5-1145G7 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1145G7 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1145G7. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1145G7 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.

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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.