Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel Core i7-10850H

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-10850H

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$ 169.99

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$ 4232.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3741 points

4087 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6024 points

6% slightly better gaming score

5668 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3030 points

3607 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points

3489 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.12 points

94.57 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4729 points

5364 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1312 points

1430 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4858 points

5383 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1380 points

1451 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5.1 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

Identical

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

12 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

456th of 1,089

427th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

10th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8400 vs Core i7-10850H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8400 performs better than the Core i7-10850H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10850H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-10850H has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10850H. Despite this, the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10850H outputs less heat than Core i5-8400 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, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-10850H 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. For instance, the Core i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.