Intel Core i5-8259U vs Intel Core i5-8600K

Core i5-8259U vs Core i5-8600K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8600K beats the Core i5-8259U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8259U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8600K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-8259U has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. Also, the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8259U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-8600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. The Core i5-8600K 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. Indeed, the Core i5-8259U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.