Intel Core i7-10870H vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i7-10870H vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10870H is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10870H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Indeed, the Core i7-10870H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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.