Intel Core i5-10600K vs Intel Core i9-9980HK

Core i5-10600K vs Core i9-9980HK benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10600K beats the Core i9-9980HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9980HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9980HK has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-9980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9980HK outputs less heat than Core i5-10600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i9-9980HK has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600K. The Core i9-9980HK 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 i5-10600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.