Intel Core i5-9500T vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Core i5-9500T vs Core i3-1220P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1220P beats the Core i5-9500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-9500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-9500T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9500T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-9500T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1220P 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.

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