Intel Core i7-10610U vs Intel Core i7-5820K

Core i7-10610U vs Core i7-5820K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5820K beats the Core i7-10610U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10610U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-5820K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-10610U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10610U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5820K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10610U. Despite this, the Core i7-10610U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10610U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5820K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-10610U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.