Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Core i9-10885H

Core i7-6850K vs Core i9-10885H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10885H beats the Core i7-6850K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6850K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10885H has slightly more cores than the Core i7-6850K. Indeed, the Core i9-10885H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-6850K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6850K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6850K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10885H. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10885H outputs less heat than Core i7-6850K thanks to a 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 i7-6850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.