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Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Pentium 957

Last updated: 2026-07-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-11700

Rank 2 - 13 %

Intel Pentium 957

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-11700

Rank 2 - 4 %

Intel Pentium 957

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

8C / 16T · 4.90 GHz

1,721

2C / 2T · 1.20 GHz

222

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

8C / 16T · 3.80 GHz

9,872

2C / 2T · 1.20 GHz

437

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 750

666

Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-11700	Intel Pentium 957
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Intel Pentium (150)
CPU group	Intel Core i 11000 (22)	Intel Pentium 900 (10)
Architecture	Rocket Lake S	Sandy Bridge U
Technology	14 nm	32 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1200	BGA 1023
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-10700
Successor	Intel Core i7-12700

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-11700	Intel Pentium 957
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 16	2 / 2
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	8x	2x
Frequency:	2.50 GHz	1.20 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.90 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.80 GHz
L2-Cache	4.00 MB
L3-Cache	16.00 MB	2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-11700	Intel Pentium 957
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 750	Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.30 GHz	0.35 - 0.80 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 256	6 / 48
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	2 GB
Technology	14 nm	32 nm
Release date	Q1/2021	Q2/2011

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-11700	Intel Pentium 957
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-11700	Intel Pentium 957
Memory	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0 x 20	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-11700	Intel Pentium 957
TDP	65 W	17 W
TDP (PL2)	224 W @ 56 s
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-11700	Intel Pentium 957
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date	Q1/2021	Q2/2011
Release price	323 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-11700 is 4.2 stars (33 ratings), while Intel Pentium 957 has received 0 stars (0 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-11700
8C / 16T · 2.50 - 4.90 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Pentium 957
2C / 2T · 1.20 GHz

★★★★★