Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Core i9-9980HK

Core i5-8500 vs Core i9-9980HK specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8500 performs better than the Core i9-9980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9980HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9980HK has slightly more cores than the Core i5-8500. Indeed, the Core i9-9980HK has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-9980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9980HK 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-9980HK has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. The Core i9-9980HK 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 i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.