Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i9-9880H

Core i5-10500 vs Core i9-9880H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10500 is faster than the Core i9-9880H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9880H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9880H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9880H. Despite this, the Core i9-9880H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9880H outputs less heat than Core i5-10500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-9880H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10500. The Core i9-9880H 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.