Intel Core i5-4210H vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Core i5-4210H vs Core i7-8850H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8850H beats the Core i5-4210H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8850H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4210H. Indeed, the Core i7-8850H has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4210H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4210H. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4210H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8850H outputs less heat than Core i5-4210H thanks to a slightly 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 i5-4210H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.