Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i7-11800H

Core i7-8700 vs Core i7-11800H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11800H is faster than the Core i7-8700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-11800H has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8700. Indeed, the Core i7-11800H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11800H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-11800H 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.