Intel Core i5-9500 vs Intel Core i7-8700

Core i5-9500 vs Core i7-8700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700 beats the Core i5-9500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-8700 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-9500. Also, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-8700 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.