Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i7-10870H vs Core i7-12800H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-10870H performs better than the Core i7-12800H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12800H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-10870H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10870H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-12800H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10870H. The Core i7-12800H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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