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6 Cores, 6 Threads @3.00 GHz, Coffee Lake.
Release date ≈ Q1 2018.

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▲ 54320 ▼
  

32 Cores, 64 Threads.
Release date ≈ Q1 2020.

Effective Speed 
+5%
Real World Speed
Performance profile from 44,311 user samples
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43,089 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 90% Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 60% Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg)
Poor: 60% Great: 90%
SPEED RANK: 214th / 1452
Gaming
Gaming 82%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 84%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 67%
Battle cruiser
1,222 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 94% Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 72% Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 0.9 GHz (avg)
Poor: 72% Great: 94%
SPEED RANK: 179th / 1452
Gaming
Gaming 86%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 86%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 154%
UFO
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed 		82.1 % 85.8 % +5%
Average Score 
+25%
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency 		82.6 Pts Lower memory latency.
+17% 		70.4 Pts
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed 		116 Pts 137 Pts Faster single-core speed.
+18%
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed 		230 Pts 274 Pts Faster dual-core speed.
+19%
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed 		448 Pts 541 Pts Faster quad-core speed.
+21%
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed 		585 Pts 1075 Pts Hugely faster octa-core speed.
+84%
Overclocked Score 
+24%
Memory
OC Memory Latency 		94.1 Pts Lower OC memory latency.
+17% 		80.6 Pts
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed 		123 Pts 149 Pts Faster OC single-core speed.
+21%
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed 		244 Pts 298 Pts Faster OC dual-core speed.
+22%
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed 		484 Pts 589 Pts Faster OC quad-core speed.
+22%
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed 		675 Pts 1169 Pts Much faster OC octa-core speed.
+73%
Value & Sentiment 
+∞%
Market Share
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Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days) 		0.19 % Insanely higher market share.
+∞% 		0 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating 		60 % More popular.
+11% 		54 %
Nice To Haves 
+526%
Age
Newest 		75+ Months 52+ Months Much more recent.
+31%
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed 		694 Pts 6029 Pts Hugely faster OC 64-core speed.
+769%
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed 		608 Pts 5350 Pts Hugely faster 64-core speed.
+780%
Conclusion 
Average Bench 82.1%
Average Bench 85.8%
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The hex-core i5-8500 hails from Intel’s eighth generation of Coffee Lake processors, known for featuring a higher number of cores at each SKU than in previous generations and their refinement of the 14nm architecture as seen in 6th and 7th generation processors. At an estimated price of $184 it offers good multi-core value for money. Its quad core performance nearly rivals the more expensive i7-7700K (the 2017 CPU of choice for many top-end gamers). However based on preliminary benchmarks, the i5-8500 is only marginally faster (2% greater effective speed) than the i5-8400 which is also a recent and competitively priced hex-core Coffee Lake processor. Also, like the i5-8400, the 8500 features 9MB of L3 cache and a frugal TDP of 65W, leaving not much to choose between them. As is the case of all Coffee Lake processors, currently the only motherboards that the 8500 can be paired with feature Intel’s high-end Z370 chipset for overclocking. However, alternative and more suitable 300 series motherboards are long overdue and expected to be available soon. [Mar '18 CPUPro]

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Launched 7 February 2020, this multithreaded gargantuan comes with whopping 64 core and 128 thread and costs $3990 to be exact. This CPU has core clock of 2.9GHz and has max boost clock of 4.3GHz which is high for CPU with huge amount of cores and has 280W TDP which would shows how efficient this CPU is. The single core performance is not too mind boggling but the multi core performance blows all other single socket CPU in existence. Safe to say, this CPU poses incredible value for content creator, data center and regular server users alike for amount of multithreaded performance you get at that price point. [Feb '20 ColdSpy]

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