Intel Core i5-10400 vs Intel Core i7-10870H

Core i5-10400 vs Core i7-10870H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10870H beats the Core i5-10400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10870H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-10400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10870H outputs less heat than Core i5-10400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-10870H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10400. The Core i7-10870H also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-10400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.