Intel Core i7-7700 vs Intel Core i9-10885H

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 102.50
$ 4290.50 significantly less expensive
$ 4393.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3300 points
1% slightly better overall score
3263 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5283 points
16% slightly better gaming score
4554 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2715 points
2861 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2606 points
2769 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

74.17 points
107.45 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4377 points
6775 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1353 points
1587 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4482 points
6323 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1405 points
1482 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.3 GHz
26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

500th of 1,089
502nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
10th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-7700 vs Core i9-10885H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7700 is faster than the Core i9-10885H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10885H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10885H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7700. Indeed, the Core i9-10885H has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-7700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7700 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 i7-7700 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 i7-7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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