Intel Core i7-8750H vs Intel Core i5-10310U

Core i7-8750H vs Core i5-10310U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8750H performs better than the Core i5-10310U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10310U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8750H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10310U. Indeed, the Core i7-8750H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-10310U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10310U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8750H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10310U. Despite this, the Core i5-10310U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10310U outputs less heat than Core i7-8750H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-8750H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.