Intel Core i5-8265U vs Intel Core i7-10610U

Core i5-8265U vs Core i7-10610U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10610U is faster than the Core i5-8265U. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10610U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8265U. Also, the Core i7-10610U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-10610U 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 i5-8265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.