Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i9-10900X

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

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900X performs better 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 i9-10900X has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8700. Indeed, the Core i9-10900X has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.