Intel Core i5-9500 vs Intel Core i7-6700K

Core i5-9500 vs Core i7-6700K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9500 is faster than the Core i7-6700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-9500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6700K has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-6700K has more threads than the Core i5-9500. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9500. Despite this, the Core i5-9500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-9500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-9500 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. The Core i5-9500 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.