Intel Core i5-7600K vs Intel Core i5-8500T

Core i5-7600K vs Core i5-8500T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8500T beats the Core i5-7600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-7600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8500T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-7600K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500T. Also, the Core i5-7600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8500T outputs less heat than Core i5-7600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-8500T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-7600K. The Core i5-8500T also has significantly 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. For instance, the Core i5-7600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.