Intel Core i3-9300 vs Intel Core i5-8500T

Core i3-9300 vs Core i5-8500T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8500T is faster than the Core i3-9300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-9300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8500T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-9300 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-9300. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-9300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500T. Also, the Core i3-9300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8500T outputs less heat than Core i3-9300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-8500T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-9300. The Core i5-8500T also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i3-9300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.