Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i5-9500

Core i5-10500 vs Core i5-9500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10500 beats the Core i5-9500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-9500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-10500 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-9500. Also, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. 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.