Intel Core i7-10700T vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Core i7-10700T vs Core i7-8550U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700T beats the Core i7-8550U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10700T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8550U. Indeed, the Core i7-10700T has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8550U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8550U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Also, the Core i7-10700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8550U outputs less heat than Core i7-10700T thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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