Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Core i7-10870H vs Core i7-11600H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10870H beats the Core i7-11600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10870H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-11600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11600H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-11600H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10870H. The Core i7-11600H also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-10870H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.