The Intel Core i5-11400 may beat the 10th-gen flagship

Recently flagged benchmarks online appear to show that Intel’s upcoming 11th generation Core i5-11400 CPU has better single core performance than all of the company’s 10th generation CPUs, a remarkable feat considering the i5-11400 is the 11th generation’s entry level CPU.

The benchmarks, found in the Geekbench database, show Intel’s upcoming entry-level 11th generation processor beating out the fastest Intel CPU from the previous generation in terms of single-core performance by roughly 200 points, with one outlier beating it by nearly 1,000.

Its multicore performance falls well short of the Core i9-10900K, however.

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