Intel Core i7-10610U vs Intel Core i9-8950HK

Core i7-10610U vs Core i9-8950HK specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-8950HK is faster than the Core i7-10610U. Despite this, the Core i7-10610U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores than the Core i7-10610U. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-10610U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10610U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-8950HK has a significantly higher clock speed than 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 i9-8950HK CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10610U. The Core i9-8950HK 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.