Intel Core i7-5600U vs Intel Core i7-8500Y

Core i7-5600U vs Core i7-8500Y specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8500Y beats the Core i7-5600U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5600U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8500Y. Despite this, the Core i7-8500Y has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8500Y outputs less heat than Core i7-5600U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.