Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Core i5-11400F

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 194.00
$ 150.09
$ 43.91 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5130 points
5669 points
10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points
8320 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points
4844 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points
4676 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5074 points
5719 points
12% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points
128.47 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6462 points
7380 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1549 points
1895 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6565 points
7590 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1621 points
1979 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
42% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
Identical
128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

335th of 1,089
277th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-8700K vs Core i5-11400F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400F is faster than the Core i7-8700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400F. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11400F outputs less heat than Core i7-8700K 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 i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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