Intel Core i5-8500T vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Core i5-8500T vs Core i7-1260U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8500T is faster than the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-8500T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8500T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8500T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260U outputs less heat than Core i5-8500T 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 i7-1260U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500T. The Core i7-1260U 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 i5-8500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.