Intel Core i7-10610U vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Core i7-10610U vs Core i7-8850H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8850H performs better than the Core i7-10610U. Despite this, the Core i7-10610U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-10610U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10610U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8850H 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 i7-8850H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-8850H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10610U. The Core i7-8850H 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. Indeed, the Core i7-10610U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.