Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i9-10980HK

Core i7-8086K vs Core i9-10980HK specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8086K is faster than the Core i9-10980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10980HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10980HK has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8086K. Indeed, the Core i9-10980HK has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8086K. 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 i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10980HK 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 i9-10980HK has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8086K. The Core i9-10980HK 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.