Intel Core i5-8500T vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Core i5-8500T vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8500T is faster than the Core i7 X 990. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7 X 990 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7 X 990 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500T

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.