Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Core i9-9900

Core i5-8500 vs Core i9-9900 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8500 beats the Core i9-9900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500. Also, the Core i9-9900 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 i9-9900 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. The Core i9-9900 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 i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.