Intel Core i7-10850H vs Intel Core i7-5500U

Core i7-10850H vs Core i7-5500U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10850H beats the Core i7-5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-5500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5500U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5500U. Also, the Core i7-10850H has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5500U 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-10850H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-5500U. The Core i7-10850H 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 i7-10850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.