Intel Core i7-7800X vs Intel Core i9-10885H

Core i7-7800X vs Core i9-10885H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7800X is faster than the Core i9-10885H. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10885H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-7800X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7800X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7800X 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 i7-7800X 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 i7-7800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.