Intel Core i5-8500T vs Intel Core i7-6700T

Core i5-8500T vs Core i7-6700T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8500T beats the Core i7-6700T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-8500T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-6700T that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-6700T has more threads than the Core i5-8500T. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500T. Also, the Core i7-6700T 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 i5-8500T has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700T. The Core i5-8500T also has slightly 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 i5-8500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.