Intel Core i7-8650U vs Intel Core i7-10850H

Core i7-8650U vs Core i7-10850H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10850H beats the Core i7-8650U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8650U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-8650U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8650U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8650U. Also, the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8650U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-10850H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-10850H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8650U. The Core i7-10850H also has significantly 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 i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.