Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i7-8700K

Core i5-10500 vs Core i7-8700K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700K beats the Core i5-10500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10500. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8700K CPU because of its 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 and 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. Indeed, the Core i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.