Intel Core i9-9900KS vs Intel Core i5-14500T

Core i9-9900KS vs Core i5-14500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900KS beats the Core i5-14500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14500T has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-9900KS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900KS. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9900KS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500T. Also, the Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14500T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KS. The Core i5-14500T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-9900KS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.