Intel Core i5-8600 vs Intel Core i7-9700T

Core i5-8600 vs Core i7-9700T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700T is faster than the Core i5-8600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700T has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700T. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-9700T outputs less heat than Core i5-8600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-8600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.