Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i7-1185G7

Core i7-8700 vs Core i7-1185G7 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700 beats the Core i7-1185G7 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1185G7 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8700 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-1185G7 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1185G7. The Core i7-1185G7 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.