Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Core i7-9750H

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-9750H

Price

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$ 179.99

$ 3269.01 significantly less expensive

$ 3449.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3718 points

3% slightly better overall score

3576 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6040 points

20% slightly better gaming score

5033 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3002 points

3131 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2880 points

3029 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3756 points

3768 points

0.32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

83.18 points

92.31 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4908 points

4927 points

0.39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1369 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1326 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4868 points

4974 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1396 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1359 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.5 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

Identical

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

12 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

460th of 1,089

477th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8500 vs Core i7-9750H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8500 performs better than the Core i7-9750H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9750H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-9750H has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9750H. Despite this, the Core i7-9750H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9750H outputs less heat than Core i5-8500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-9750H also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.