Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Core i7-12650H

Core i7-8700K vs Core i7-12650H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12650H beats the Core i7-8700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12650H has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-8700K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12650H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-12650H 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 i7-12650H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700K. The Core i7-12650H also has significantly 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.