Intel Core i5-10600 vs Intel Core i7-9700

Core i5-10600 vs Core i7-9700 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10600 beats the Core i7-9700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-10600 that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-10600 has more threads than the Core i7-9700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700. Also, the Core i5-10600 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 info from our database shows that the Core i7-9700 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i5-10600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.