Intel Core i7-10700K vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i7-10700K vs Core i7-12800H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-10700K performs better than the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-10700K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Also, the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H outputs less heat than Core i7-10700K thanks to a 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 i7-12800H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700K. The Core i7-12800H also has significantly 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 i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.