Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Core i7-8700K vs Core Ultra 7 256V specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700K beats the Core Ultra 7 256V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 256V has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-8700K that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 256V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 256V has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.