Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Core i7-10870H

Core i5-8500 vs Core i7-10870H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10870H beats the Core i5-8500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10870H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-8500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10870H outputs less heat than Core i5-8500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-10870H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. The Core i7-10870H 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. For instance, the Core i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.