Intel Core i5-8279U vs Intel Core i7-10875H

Core i5-8279U vs Core i7-10875H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10875H is faster than the Core i5-8279U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8279U 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 i5-8279U. Indeed, the Core i7-10875H has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8279U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8279U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8279U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10875H. Despite this, the Core i7-10875H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8279U 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.

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 i5-8279U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.