Intel Core i5-9600K vs Intel Core i9-9880H

Core i5-9600K vs Core i9-9880H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9600K is faster than the Core i9-9880H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9880H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9880H has slightly more cores than the Core i5-9600K. Indeed, the Core i9-9880H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-9600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-9600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9880H. Despite this, the Core i9-9880H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9880H outputs less heat than Core i5-9600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-9880H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9600K. The Core i9-9880H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-9600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.