Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i9-10900

Core i5-10500 vs Core i9-10900 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900 is faster than the Core i5-10500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10900 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-10500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-10900 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10500. The Core i9-10900 also has significantly 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.