Intel Core i7-10850H vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Core i7-10850H vs Core i3-1215U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-10850H performs better than the Core i3-1215U. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-10850H has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10850H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1215U. Also, the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Core i7-10850H 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 i3-1215U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10850H. Despite this, the Core i7-10850H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-1215U.

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 i7-10850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.