Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i5-8400T

Core i5-10500 vs Core i5-8400T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10500 is faster than the Core i5-8400T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8400T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-10500 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8400T. Also, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8400T outputs less heat than Core i5-10500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i5-10500 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.