Intel Core i7-8700T vs Intel Core i5-1135G7

Core i7-8700T vs Core i5-1135G7 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-1135G7 performs better than the Core i7-8700T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-1135G7 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1135G7. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-8700T and Core i5-1135G7 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-1135G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1135G7 outputs less heat than Core i7-8700T thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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