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MediaTek Dimensity 1080 vs Intel Core i5-9500F

Last updated: 2026-07-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 68 %

MediaTek Dimensity 1080

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-9500F

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 47 %

MediaTek Dimensity 1080

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-9500F

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

1,034

6C / 6T · 4.40 GHz

1,427

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

2,509

6C / 6T · 4.00 GHz

5,424

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

732

6C / 6T · 4.40 GHz

1,168

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

2,219

6C / 6T · 4.00 GHz

4,736

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1080	Intel Core i5-9500F
Family	Mediatek Dimensity (38)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	MediaTek Dimensity 10xx (2)	Intel Core i 9000 (34)
Architecture	Cortex-A78 / Cortex-A55	Coffee Lake S Refresh
Technology	6 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1151-2
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1080	Intel Core i5-9500F
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Cortex-A78 2.60 GHz	6x 3.00 - 4.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	6x Cortex-A55 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache		9.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1080	Intel Core i5-9500F
GPU name	ARM Mali-G68 MP4	no iGPU
GPU frequency
CUs / Shader	4 / 64	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1
Max. GPU Memory
Technology	6 nm
Release date	Q2/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1080	Intel Core i5-9500F
AI hardware	Mediatek APU 3.0
AI specifications	MediaTek APU 3.0 @ 4.5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1080	Intel Core i5-9500F
Memory	LPDDR5-5500 (44.0 GB/s) LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1080	Intel Core i5-9500F
TDP		65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	MediaTek Dimensity 1080	Intel Core i5-9500F
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Android	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2022	Q2/2019
Release price		220 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of MediaTek Dimensity 1080 is 4.3 stars (85 ratings), while Intel Core i5-9500F has received 4.5 stars (4 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

MediaTek Dimensity 1080
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-9500F
6C / 6T · 3.00 - 4.40 GHz

★★★★★