Intel Core i5-10310U vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Core i5-10310U vs Core i7-8850H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8850H beats the Core i5-10310U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10310U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-10310U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10310U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8850H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10310U. Despite this, the Core i5-10310U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10310U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8850H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10310U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.