Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i7-10870H

Core i7-8086K vs Core i7-10870H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10870H beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8086K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10870H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8086K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10870H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-10870H outputs less heat than Core i7-8086K 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 i7-10870H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8086K. The Core i7-10870H also has slightly 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 i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.