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Core i9-9880H vs i5-8500


Description
Both models i9-9880H 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 i9-9880H gets a score of 381.5 k points while the i5-8500 gets 307.5 k points.

Summarizing, the i9-9880H is 1.2 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-H
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.3 GHz
3 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.8 GHz
4.1 GHz
Socket
BGA 1440
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
8/16
6/6
TDP
45 W
65 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
8x32+8x32 kB
6x32+6x32 kB
Cache L2
8x256 kB
6x256 kB
Cache L3
16386 kB
9216 kB
Date
April 2019
March 2018
Mean monothread perf.
73.53k points
69.09k points
Mean multithread perf.
381.53k points
307.52k 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
i9-9880H
i5-8500
Test#1 (Integers)
27.81k
27.36k (x0.98)
Test#2 (FP)
25.88k
24.27k (x0.94)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.65k
5.69k (x1.01)
Test#1 (Memory)
14.19k
11.77k (x0.83)
TOTAL
73.53k
69.09k (x0.94)

Multithread

i9-9880H

i5-8500
Test#1 (Integers)
175.69k
144.77k (x0.82)
Test#2 (FP)
166.56k
129.04k (x0.77)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
35.04k
29.53k (x0.84)
Test#1 (Memory)
4.23k
4.18k (x0.99)
TOTAL
381.53k
307.52k (x0.81)

Performance/W
i9-9880H
i5-8500
Test#1 (Integers)
3904 points/W
2227 points/W
Test#2 (FP)
3701 points/W
1985 points/W
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
779 points/W
454 points/W
Test#1 (Memory)
94 points/W
64 points/W
TOTAL
8478 points/W
4731 points/W

Performance/GHz
i9-9880H
i5-8500
Test#1 (Integers)
5793 points/GHz
6673 points/GHz
Test#2 (FP)
5392 points/GHz
5920 points/GHz
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
1178 points/GHz
1388 points/GHz
Test#1 (Memory)
2956 points/GHz
2870 points/GHz
TOTAL
15319 points/GHz
16850 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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