Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i7-9850H

Core i7-10700 vs Core i7-9850H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10700 is faster than the Core i7-9850H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9850H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-9850H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9850H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9850H. Also, the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9850H outputs less heat than Core i7-10700 thanks to a 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 i7-10700 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-9850H. The Core i7-10700 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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