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

Core i5-8600K vs Core i7-9700T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8600K beats the Core i7-9700T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700T has slightly more cores than the Core i5-8600K. Indeed, the Core i7-9700T has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700T. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-9700T outputs less heat than Core i5-8600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-8600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.