Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Core i7-8700K

Core i5-8500 vs Core i7-8700K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700K beats the Core i5-8500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-8700K has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-8700K 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. For instance, the Core i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.