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Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Pentium 977

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-11500
Rank 2 - 18 %
Intel Pentium 977
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i5-11500
Rank 2 - 6 %
Intel Pentium 977
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Core i5-11500
6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz
1,547
Intel Pentium 977
2C / 2T · 1.40 GHz
278
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Core i5-11500
6C / 12T · 3.70 GHz
7,430
Intel Pentium 977
2C / 2T · 1.40 GHz
535
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Core i5-11500
Intel UHD Graphics 750
666
Intel Pentium 977
Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
96

More benchmarks

At a glance

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Intel Core i5-11500Intel Pentium 977
FamilyIntel Core i5 (336)Intel Pentium (150)
CPU groupIntel Core i 11000 (22)Intel Pentium 900 (10)
ArchitectureRocket Lake SSandy Bridge U
Technology14 nm32 nm
SegmentDesktopNotebook
SocketLGA 1200BGA 1023
PredecessorIntel Core i5-10500
SuccessorIntel Core i5-12500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Core i5-11500Intel Pentium 977
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 122 / 2
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 6x 2x
Frequency: 2.70 GHz 1.40 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 4.60 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 3.70 GHz
L2-Cache3.00 MB
L3-Cache12.00 MB2.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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Intel Core i5-11500Intel Pentium 977
GPU nameIntel UHD Graphics 750Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
GPU frequency0.35 - 1.30 GHz0.35 - 1.00 GHz
CUs / Shader32 / 2566 / 48
Raytracing
Max. displays32
Max. GPU Memory64 GB2 GB
Technology14 nm32 nm
Release dateQ1/2021Q2/2011

NPU AI performance

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Intel Core i5-11500Intel Pentium 977
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Core i5-11500Intel Pentium 977
MemoryDDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory128 GB16 GB
Memory channels22
ECCNoNo
PCIe4.0 x 202.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth39.4 GB/s8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Core i5-11500Intel Pentium 977
TDP65 W17 W
TDP (PL2)154 W @ 56 s
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.100 °C100 °C

Technical details

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Intel Core i5-11500Intel Pentium 977
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, Windows 11, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release dateQ1/2021Q1/2012
Release price250 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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Intel Core i5-11500
Intel Core i5-11500
6C / 12T · 2.70 - 4.60 GHz
Intel Pentium 977
Intel Pentium 977
2C / 2T · 1.40 GHz

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