Intel Core i5-8259U vs Intel Core i7-10875H

Core i5-8259U vs Core i7-10875H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10875H beats the Core i5-8259U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8259U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10875H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8259U. Indeed, the Core i7-10875H has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8259U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8259U. Both the Core i5-8259U and Core i7-10875H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-10875H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8259U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-10875H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-10875H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. The Core i7-10875H also has significantly 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 i5-8259U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.