Intel Core i9-9880H vs Intel Core i7-5820K

Core i9-9880H vs Core i7-5820K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9880H performs better than the Core i7-5820K. Despite this, the Core i7-5820K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9880H has slightly more cores than the Core i7-5820K. Indeed, the Core i9-9880H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-5820K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5820K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5820K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9880H. Despite this, the Core i9-9880H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9880H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5820K 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 i9-9880H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.