Intel Core i7-10850H vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Core i7-10850H vs Core i5-1245U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1245U beats the Core i7-10850H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10850H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1245U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-10850H that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10850H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1245U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10850H. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-10850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.