Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i5-1334U

Core i7-8700 vs Core i5-1334U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1334U beats the Core i7-8700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1334U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-8700 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1334U. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1334U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.