Core i5-9500 vs i7-9700K
Description
Both models i5-9500 and i7-9700K 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 i5-9500 gets a score of 352.8 k points while the i7-9700K gets 460 k points.
Summarizing, the i7-9700K is 1.3 times faster than the i5-9500. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
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 i5-9500 gets a score of 352.8 k points while the i7-9700K gets 460 k points.
Summarizing, the i7-9700K is 1.3 times faster than the i5-9500. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
Specs
CPUID
906ea
906ec
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Coffee Lake-S
Base frecuency
3 GHz
3.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.4 GHz
4.9 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
6/6
8/8
TDP
65 W
95 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
6x32+6x32 kB
8x32+8x32 kB
Cache L2
6x256 kB
8x256 kB
Cache L3
9216 kB
12288 kB
Date
April 2019
October 2018
Mean monothread perf.
73.65k points
73.62k points
Mean multithread perf.
352.84k points
460.02k 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
i5-9500
i7-9700K
Test#1 (Integers)
29.17k
29.3k (x1)
Test#2 (FP)
25.49k
25.61k (x1)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.84k
5.86k (x1)
Test#1 (Memory)
13.15k
12.86k (x0.98)
TOTAL
73.65k
73.62k (x1)
Multithread
i5-9500
i7-9700K
Test#1 (Integers)
166.66k
217.77k (x1.31)
Test#2 (FP)
146.9k
190.46k (x1.3)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
34.04k
40.48k (x1.19)
Test#1 (Memory)
5.25k
11.31k (x2.15)
TOTAL
352.84k
460.02k (x1.3)
Performance/W
i5-9500
i7-9700K
Test#1 (Integers)
2564 points/W
2292 points/W
Test#2 (FP)
2260 points/W
2005 points/W
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
524 points/W
426 points/W
Test#1 (Memory)
81 points/W
119 points/W
TOTAL
5428 points/W
4842 points/W
Performance/GHz
i5-9500
i7-9700K
Test#1 (Integers)
6629 points/GHz
5981 points/GHz
Test#2 (FP)
5793 points/GHz
5226 points/GHz
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
1327 points/GHz
1195 points/GHz
Test#1 (Memory)
2990 points/GHz
2624 points/GHz
TOTAL
16739 points/GHz
15025 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.
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]
Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]
Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]
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.
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]
Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]
Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]
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