Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i9-9820X

Core i5-10500 vs Core i9-9820X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9820X is faster than the Core i5-10500. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9820X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10500. Indeed, the Core i9-9820X has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9820X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10500. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9820X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.