Intel Core i7-7700 vs Intel Core i7-9750H

Core i7-7700 vs Core i7-9750H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9750H beats the Core i7-7700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9750H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-7700 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9750H. Despite this, the Core i7-9750H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9750H outputs less heat than Core i7-7700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-9750H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700. The Core i7-9750H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.