Intel Core i5-8600 vs Intel Core i9-9880H

Core i5-8600 vs Core i9-9880H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9880H performs better than the Core i5-8600. Despite this, the Core i5-8600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-9880H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-8600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9880H. Despite this, the Core i9-9880H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9880H 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-9880H has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8600. The Core i9-9880H 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 i5-8600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.