Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Core i7-11390H

Core i7-10870H vs Core i7-11390H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10870H beats the Core i7-11390H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11390H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10870H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-11390H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11390H. The Core i7-11390H outputs less heat than Core i7-10870H thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-10870H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.