Intel Core i5-9500T vs Intel Core i3-1125G4

Core i5-9500T vs Core i3-1125G4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1125G4 beats the Core i5-9500T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9500T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-9500T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-1125G4 has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i3-1125G4 has more threads than the Core i5-9500T. The Core i3-1125G4 outputs less heat than Core i5-9500T thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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