Intel Core i5-9600K vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Core i5-9600K vs Core i5-1245U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9600K beats the Core i5-1245U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1245U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1245U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-9600K. Indeed, the Core i5-1245U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-9600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-9600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1245U. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1245U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9600K. The Core i5-1245U 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 i5-9600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.