Intel Core i7-10700K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6751 points
6976 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8301 points
9640 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6232 points
0.53% slightly better multitasking score
6199 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6087 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
6011 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.76 points
193.42 points
8% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
22
37% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
171% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
28
75% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory
96 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
18 MiB
800% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

207th of 1,089
196th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5-7467

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-10700K vs Core Ultra 7 165H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 165H beats the Core i7-10700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-10700K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 165H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. The Core Ultra 7 165H 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 i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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