Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i9-10885H

Core i7-8086K vs Core i9-10885H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8086K beats the Core i9-10885H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10885H in all gaming tests too.

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 i7-8086K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K 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 i7-8086K 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 i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.