Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i7-10870H

Core i7-8700 vs Core i7-10870H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-10870H performs better than the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10870H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-8700 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10870H outputs less heat than Core i7-8700 thanks to a 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 i7-10870H has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Core i7-10870H 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.