Intel Core i5-9500T vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3104 points

4% slightly better overall score

2957 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5158 points

27% slightly better gaming score

4037 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2485 points

2609 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2385 points

2522 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

53.77 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

52.64 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

3.37 GHz

53% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

524th of 1,089

543rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-9500T vs Core i7 X 980 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9500T is faster than the Core i7 X 980. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 980 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7 X 980 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7 X 980 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-9500T.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-9500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.