Intel Core i5-8600K vs Intel Core i9-10885H

Core i5-8600K vs Core i9-10885H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10885H beats the Core i5-8600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10885H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-8600K that has 6 cores. 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 i9-10885H. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10885H 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.