Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i9-10900

Core i7-10700 vs Core i9-10900 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900 beats the Core i7-10700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-10700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-10900 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700. The Core i9-10900 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.