Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i9-10900

Core i7-8700 vs Core i9-10900 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-8700 has 6 cores. 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 i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i9-10900 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Core i9-10900 also has significantly 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.