Intel Core i5-9500T vs Intel Core i7-1265U

Core i5-9500T vs Core i7-1265U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1265U 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1265U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-9500T. Indeed, the Core i7-1265U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-9500T. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9500T. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-9500T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1265U outputs less heat than Core i5-9500T thanks to a significantly 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.