Intel Core i5-8259U vs Intel Core i7-10810U

Core i5-8259U vs Core i7-10810U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8259U beats the Core i7-10810U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10810U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10810U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-8259U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8259U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8259U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10810U. Despite this, the Core i7-10810U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10810U outputs less heat than Core i5-8259U 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 i7-10810U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8259U. The Core i7-10810U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-8259U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.