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In short, we have a clear winner — Core i5-11400 outperforms the more expensive Core i5-8400 on the selected game parameters, and is also a better bang for your buck! The better performing Core i5-11400 is 1258 days newer than the more expensive Core i5-8400.
Advantages of Intel Core i5-11400
- Performs up to 81% better in Cities: Skylines II than Core i5-8400 - 47 vs 26 FPS
- Up to 18% cheaper than Core i5-8400 - £130.0 vs £158.88
- Up to 55% better value when playing Cities: Skylines II than Core i5-8400 - £2.77 vs £6.11 per FPS
- Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Core i5-8400 - 12 vs 6 threads
- Works without a dedicated GPU, while Intel Core i5-8400 doesn't have integrated graphics
Cities: Skylines II
Resolution
1920 x 1080
Game Graphics
High
Core i5-11400
Desktop • Mar 16th, 2021
FPS
47
100%
Value, £/FPS
£2.77/FPS
100%
Price, £
£130
100%
FPS and Value Winner
Intel® Core™ i5-11400 Desktop Processor 6 Cores up to 4.4 GHz LGA1200 (Intel® 500 Series & Select 400 Series Chipset) 65W
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Intel Core i5-8400 Retail - (1151/Hex Core/2.80GHz/9MB/Coffee Lake/65W/Graphics)
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TOP 5 Games
Resolution
1920 x 1080
Game Graphics
High
Core i5-11400
Desktop • Mar 16th, 2021
Core i5-8400
Desktop • Oct 5th, 2017
Geekbench 5 Benchmarks
Intel Core i5-11400 | vs | Intel Core i5-8400 |
|---|---|---|
Mar 16th, 2021 | Release Date | Oct 5th, 2017 |
| Core i5 | Collection | Core i5 |
| Rocket Lake | Codename | Coffee Lake |
| Intel Socket 1200 | Socket | Intel Socket 1151 |
Desktop | Segment | Desktop |
| 6 | Cores | 6 |
12 | Threads | 6 |
| 2.6 GHz | Base Clock Speed | 2.8 GHz |
4.4 GHz | Turbo Clock Speed | 4.0 GHz |
| 65 W | TDP | 65 W |
| 14 nm | Process Size | 14 nm |
| 26.0x | Multiplier | 28.0x |
UHD Graphics 730 | Integrated Graphics | None |
| No | Overclockable | No |
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