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In short, we have a clear winner — Core i5-11500 outperforms the cheaper Core i5-9400F on the selected game parameters, and is also a better bang for your buck! The better performing Core i5-11500 is 798 days newer than the cheaper Core i5-9400F.
Advantages of Intel Core i5-9400F
- Up to 8% cheaper than Core i5-11500 - £128.88 vs £139.74
Advantages of Intel Core i5-11500
- Performs up to 18% better in Far Cry 6 than Core i5-9400F - 141 vs 120 FPS
- Up to 7% better value when playing Far Cry 6 than Core i5-9400F - £0.99 vs £1.07 per FPS
- Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Core i5-9400F - 12 vs 6 threads
- Works without a dedicated GPU, while Intel Core i5-9400F doesn't have integrated graphics
Far Cry 6
Resolution
1920 x 1080
Game Graphics
Ultra
Intel Core i5-9400F 2.9GHz LGA1151 9M Cache BOX CPU
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Core i5-11500
Desktop • Mar 16th, 2021
FPS
141
100%
Value, £/FPS
£0.99/FPS
100%
Price, £
£139.74
92%
FPS and Value Winner
Intel® Core™ i5-11500 Desktop Processor 6 Cores up to 4.6 GHz LGA1200 (Intel® 500 Series & select 400 Series chipset) 65W
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TOP 5 Games
Resolution
1920 x 1080
Game Graphics
Ultra
Core i5-9400F
Desktop • Jan 8th, 2019
Core i5-11500
Desktop • Mar 16th, 2021
Geekbench 5 Benchmarks
Intel Core i5-9400F | vs | Intel Core i5-11500 |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 8th, 2019 | Release Date | Mar 16th, 2021 |
| Core i5 | Collection | Core i5 |
| Coffee Lake | Codename | Rocket Lake |
| Intel Socket 1151 | Socket | Intel Socket 1200 |
Desktop | Segment | Desktop |
| 6 | Cores | 6 |
| 6 | Threads | 12 |
2.9 GHz | Base Clock Speed | 2.7 GHz |
| 4.1 GHz | Turbo Clock Speed | 4.6 GHz |
| 65 W | TDP | 65 W |
| 14 nm | Process Size | 14 nm |
29.0x | Multiplier | 27.0x |
| None | Integrated Graphics | UHD Graphics 750 |
| No | Overclockable | No |
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