Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i7-920

Core i7-10700 vs Core i7-920 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700 beats the Core i7-920 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10700 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-920 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-920. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-920. Also, the Core i7-10700 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-920 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 i7-920 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700

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 i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.