Intel Core i5-8279U vs Intel Core i7-8700T

Core i5-8279U vs Core i7-8700T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8700T 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-8279U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8279U. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-8279U and Core i7-8700T are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-8279U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8279U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8700T CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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