Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i5-9600

Core i5-10500 vs Core i5-9600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10500 is faster than the Core i5-9600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9600 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. Both the Core i5-10500 and Core i5-9600 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-9600 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.