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Core i5-8600 vs i7-9850H


Description
Both models i5-8600 and i7-9850H are based on Coffee Lake architecture.

Coffee Lake is the second refinement of Intel’s 14nm (Tri-Gate) technology. While it uses LGA1151 socket, it is incompatible with previous generations due to electrical changes in socket’s pins so these CPUs require Z370 chipset. This kind of generation introduced more cores in every range to compete with new AMD’s architecture. Coffee Lake uses DDR4 memory at 2400MHz for i3 and at 2666MHz for i5, i7 CPUs plus iGPU frequency has been increased 50MHz with respect to previous generation.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i5-8600 gets a score of 317.5 k points while the i7-9850H gets 289.3 k points.

Summarizing, the i5-8600 is 1.1 times faster than the i7-9850H. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ea
906ed
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Coffee Lake-H
Architecture
Base frecuency
3.1 GHz
2.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.3 GHz
4.6 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
BGA 1440
Cores/Threads
6/6
6/12
TDP
65 W
45 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
6x32+6x32 kB
6x32+6x32 kB
Cache L2
6x256 kB
6x256 kB
Cache L3
9216 kB
12288 kB
Date
March 2018
June 2019
Mean monothread perf.
70.3k points
49.24k points
Mean multithread perf.
317.49k points
289.3k points

AVX2 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode III (AVX2), like AVX1, is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the second version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX2 compatible CPU was released in 2013.
Monothread
i5-8600
i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
28.14k
19.83k (x0.7)
Test#2 (FP)
24.71k
16.52k (x0.67)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.51k
3.87k (x0.7)
Test#1 (Memory)
11.95k
9.02k (x0.75)
TOTAL
70.3k
49.24k (x0.7)

Multithread

i5-8600

i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
159.4k
130.19k (x0.82)
Test#2 (FP)
126.93k
121.44k (x0.96)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
26.76k
28.05k (x1.05)
Test#1 (Memory)
4.4k
9.62k (x2.19)
TOTAL
317.49k
289.3k (x0.91)

Performance/W
i5-8600
i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
2452 points/W
2893 points/W
Test#2 (FP)
1953 points/W
2699 points/W
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
412 points/W
623 points/W
Test#1 (Memory)
68 points/W
214 points/W
TOTAL
4884 points/W
6429 points/W

Performance/GHz
i5-8600
i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
6543 points/GHz
4311 points/GHz
Test#2 (FP)
5746 points/GHz
3591 points/GHz
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
1281 points/GHz
841 points/GHz
Test#1 (Memory)
2780 points/GHz
1961 points/GHz
TOTAL
16350 points/GHz
10703 points/GHz

Monothread performance graph
Monothread performance graphics gives the performance vs time. They are useful to measure the time it takes to the CPU to reach the maximum performance.

Usually, CPU's performance will be steady during these tests but if it has a slow frequency strategy, the first samples will show a lower score.


Test#1 (Integers) [points vs time]

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Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]

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Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]

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Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]

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Multithread performance graph
Multithread graphs measure the performance against a heavy load during certain time.

If CPU's TDP doesn't limit the frequency and the machine is properly cooled, performance should remain steady vs time. Otherwise, the performance score will oscillate or decrease over time.


Test#1 (Integers) [points vs time]

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Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]

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Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]

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Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]

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