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Core i7-9700F vs i5-8500


Description
Both models i7-9700F and i5-8500 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 i7-9700F gets a score of 269.9 k points while the i5-8500 gets 251.7 k points.

Summarizing, the i7-9700F is 1.1 times faster than the i5-8500. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ed
906ea
Core
Coffee Lake-S
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
3 GHz
3 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.7 GHz
4.1 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
8/8
6/6
TDP
65 W
65 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
6x32+6x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
6x256 kB
Cache L3
12288 kB
9216 kB
Date
April 2019
March 2018
Mean monothread perf.
60.93k points
69.09k points
Mean multithread perf.
269.85k points
307.52k 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
i7-9700F
i5-8500
Test#1 (Integers)
4.67k
4.19k (x0.9)
Test#2 (FP)
17.16k
17.38k (x1.01)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.7k
5.46k (x0.96)
Test#1 (Memory)
14.37k
11.92k (x0.83)
TOTAL
41.9k
38.96k (x0.93)

Multithread

i7-9700F

i5-8500
Test#1 (Integers)
26.31k
27.67k (x1.05)
Test#2 (FP)
97.53k
94.07k (x0.96)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
31.53k
29.05k (x0.92)
Test#1 (Memory)
8.94k
4.39k (x0.49)
TOTAL
164.31k
155.18k (x0.94)

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
i7-9700F
i5-8500
Test#1 (Integers)
16.8k
15.22k (x0.91)
Test#2 (FP)
24.08k
22.02k (x0.91)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.06k
5.75k (x0.95)
Test#1 (Memory)
13.98k
12.17k (x0.87)
TOTAL
60.93k
55.17k (x0.91)

Multithread

i7-9700F

i5-8500
Test#1 (Integers)
92.79k
87.78k (x0.95)
Test#2 (FP)
135.13k
126.73k (x0.94)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
33.29k
32.93k (x0.99)
Test#1 (Memory)
8.64k
4.22k (x0.49)
TOTAL
269.85k
251.65k (x0.93)

Performance/W
i7-9700F
i5-8500
Test#1 (Integers)
1428 points/W
1350 points/W
Test#2 (FP)
2079 points/W
1950 points/W
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
512 points/W
507 points/W
Test#1 (Memory)
133 points/W
65 points/W
TOTAL
4152 points/W
3872 points/W

Performance/GHz
i7-9700F
i5-8500
Test#1 (Integers)
3575 points/GHz
3713 points/GHz
Test#2 (FP)
5124 points/GHz
5371 points/GHz
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
1290 points/GHz
1401 points/GHz
Test#1 (Memory)
2975 points/GHz
2969 points/GHz
TOTAL
12964 points/GHz
13455 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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