Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2702 points
3693 points
36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4366 points
5381 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2208 points
3183 points
44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2118 points
3075 points
45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.21 points
84.41 points
78% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2474 points
4703 points
90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

708 points
1291 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2489 points
4710 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

709 points
1344 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
34% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.3 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
45 W
71% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

588th of 1,089
463rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-3770K vs Core i7-8850H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8850H beats the Core i7-3770K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8850H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3770K. Indeed, the Core i7-8850H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3770K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8850H outputs less heat than Core i7-3770K thanks to a 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 i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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