Core i5-9600KF vs i7-9850H
Description
Both models i5-9600KF 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 i5-9600KF gets a score of 371.1 k points while the i7-9850H gets 289.3 k points.
Summarizing, the i5-9600KF is 1.3 times faster than the i7-9850H. 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 i5-9600KF gets a score of 371.1 k points while the i7-9850H gets 289.3 k points.
Summarizing, the i5-9600KF is 1.3 times faster than the i7-9850H. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.
Specs
CPUID
906ec
906ed
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Coffee Lake-H
Base frecuency
3.7 GHz
2.6 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.6 GHz
4.6 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
BGA 1440
Cores/Threads
6/6
6/12
TDP
95 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
January 2019
June 2019
Mean monothread perf.
77.34k points
49.24k points
Mean multithread perf.
371.08k points
289.3k points
Non-optimized benchmark
The benchmark in Mode 0 (FPU) measures cpu performance with non-optimized software. It uses the basic µinstructions from the i386 architecture with the i387 floating point unit. This mode is compatible with all CPUs so it's practical to compare very different CPUs
Monothread
i5-9600KF
i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
4.63k
4.11k (x0.89)
Test#2 (FP)
19.43k
15.19k (x0.78)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.17k
5.04k (x0.82)
Test#1 (Memory)
13.82k
11.98k (x0.87)
TOTAL
44.04k
36.32k (x0.82)
Multithread
i5-9600KF
i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
26.64k
22.68k (x0.85)
Test#2 (FP)
110.11k
83.77k (x0.76)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
33.07k
30.37k (x0.92)
Test#1 (Memory)
8.3k
8.55k (x1.03)
TOTAL
178.11k
145.37k (x0.82)
SSE3 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.
Monothread
i5-9600KF
i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
16.5k
14.5k (x0.88)
Test#2 (FP)
24.35k
20.73k (x0.85)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.54k
5.31k (x0.81)
Test#1 (Memory)
13.59k
11.09k (x0.82)
TOTAL
60.98k
51.62k (x0.85)
Multithread
i5-9600KF
i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
93.78k
77.18k (x0.82)
Test#2 (FP)
134.47k
126.35k (x0.94)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
32.24k
33.63k (x1.04)
Test#1 (Memory)
8.22k
7.87k (x0.96)
TOTAL
268.71k
245.03k (x0.91)
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
i5-9600KF
i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
30.52k
19.83k (x0.65)
Test#2 (FP)
26.54k
16.52k (x0.62)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.41k
3.87k (x0.6)
Test#1 (Memory)
13.87k
9.02k (x0.65)
TOTAL
77.34k
49.24k (x0.64)
Multithread
i5-9600KF
i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
174.66k
130.19k (x0.75)
Test#2 (FP)
154.06k
121.44k (x0.79)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
34.11k
28.05k (x0.82)
Test#1 (Memory)
8.24k
9.62k (x1.17)
TOTAL
371.08k
289.3k (x0.78)
Performance/W
i5-9600KF
i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
1839 points/W
2893 points/W
Test#2 (FP)
1622 points/W
2699 points/W
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
359 points/W
623 points/W
Test#1 (Memory)
87 points/W
214 points/W
TOTAL
3906 points/W
6429 points/W
Performance/GHz
i5-9600KF
i7-9850H
Test#1 (Integers)
6635 points/GHz
4311 points/GHz
Test#2 (FP)
5769 points/GHz
3591 points/GHz
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
1394 points/GHz
841 points/GHz
Test#1 (Memory)
3015 points/GHz
1961 points/GHz
TOTAL
16813 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.
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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