Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Core i7-10870H

Core i7-8700K vs Core i7-10870H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10870H is faster than the Core i7-8700K. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10870H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-8700K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10870H outputs less heat than Core i7-8700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-10870H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700K. The Core i7-10870H also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.