Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i7-11700 vs Core i7-12800H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700 beats the Core i7-12800H in overall performance. 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 i7-11700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Also, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H outputs less heat than Core i7-11700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-12800H also has significantly 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 i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.