Intel Core i5-9500 vs Intel Core i7-9700F

Core i5-9500 vs Core i7-9700F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700F is faster than the Core i5-9500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700F has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-9500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9500. According to our data, the Core i5-9500 and Core i7-9700F have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-9700F 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-9700F has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9500. The Core i7-9700F 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.