Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel Core i5-9400F

Core i7-6500U vs Core i5-9400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9400F beats the Core i7-6500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-9400F has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6500U. Indeed, the Core i5-9400F has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6500U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-9400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6500U. Also, the Core i5-9400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-9400F CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.