Intel Core i5-6400T vs Intel Core i7-8500Y

Core i5-6400T vs Core i7-8500Y comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6400T is faster than the Core i7-8500Y. Despite this, the Core i7-8500Y has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6400T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8500Y. Indeed, the Core i5-6400T has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-8500Y. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-6400T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8500Y. Despite this, the Core i7-8500Y has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8500Y outputs less heat than Core i5-6400T thanks to a 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. For instance, the Core i5-6400T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.