Intel Core i7-9850HL vs Intel Core i5-6500TE

Core i7-9850HL vs Core i5-6500TE benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6500TE is faster than the Core i7-9850HL. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9850HL in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9850HL has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-6500TE has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6500TE. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6500TE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-9850HL CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6500TE CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-9850HL has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-6500TE. The Core i7-9850HL also has significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i7-9850HL has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.