Intel Core i7-6700 vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Core i7-6700 vs Core i7-8850H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8850H is faster than the Core i7-6700. Despite this, the Core i7-6700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6700 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 i7-6700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-8850H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6700. The Core i7-8850H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.