Intel Core i5-7500T vs Intel Core i5-8500T

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1862 points
3124 points
67% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3552 points
5063 points
42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1406 points
2528 points
79% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1350 points
2428 points
79% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.76 points
56.83 points
50% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3023 points
3954 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1087 points
1137 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3062 points
4152 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points
1193 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
3.5 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
Identical
35 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
1.5 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
9 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

749th of 1,089
521st of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-7500T vs Core i5-8500T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8500T is faster than the Core i5-7500T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7500T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8500T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-7500T. Indeed, the Core i5-8500T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-7500T. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7500T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-7500T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500T. Despite this, the Core i5-8500T 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 i5-8500T has more L2 cache than the Core i5-7500T. The Core i5-8500T also has significantly more 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. For instance, the Core i5-7500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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