Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i5-1335U

Core i7-8700 vs Core i5-1335U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700 beats the Core i5-1335U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1335U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1335U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-8700 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 i5-1335U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1335U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.