Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i7-11370H

Core i7-8086K vs Core i7-11370H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8086K beats the Core i7-11370H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11370H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8086K has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-11370H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11370H. The Core i7-11370H 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 more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.