Intel Core i5-9500 vs Intel Core i7-11390H

Core i5-9500 vs Core i7-11390H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-9500 performs better than the Core i7-11390H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11390H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-9500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-11390H that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-11390H has more threads than the Core i5-9500. The Core i7-11390H outputs less heat than Core i5-9500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.