Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i9-9880H

Core i7-8700 vs Core i9-9880H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9880H beats the Core i7-8700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9880H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8700 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9880H. Despite this, the Core i9-9880H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9880H 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 info from our database shows that the Core i9-9880H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Core i9-9880H 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.