Intel Core i5-10500T vs Intel Core i5-9600KF

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-9600KF

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 169.96 significantly less expensive

$ 269.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3986 points

4518 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5707 points

7209 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3461 points

3673 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3351 points

3525 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

80.54 points

88.50 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4686 points

5909 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1285 points

1634 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.7 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.6 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

437th of 1,089

388th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10500T vs Core i5-9600KF benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9600KF is faster than the Core i5-10500T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10500T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-10500T has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-9600KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10500T. Also, the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10500T CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-9600KF CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-10500T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.