Intel Core i7-11800H vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

Core i7-11800H vs Core 2 Duo E8500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11800H beats the Core 2 Duo E8500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-11800H has significantly more cores than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Indeed, the Core i7-11800H has 8 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core 2 Duo E8500. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11800H. A Core i7-11800H CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-11800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.