Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Core i7-5960X

Core i7-10870H vs Core i7-5960X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5960X is faster than the Core i7-10870H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10870H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5960X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a much higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10870H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5960X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.