Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i5-3570K

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i5-3570K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3570K beats the Core i9-8950HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-8950HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3570K. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-3570K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3570K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3570K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-8950HK CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3570K 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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.