Intel Core i7-8750H vs Intel Core i5-8400H

Core i7-8750H vs Core i5-8400H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8400H beats the Core i7-8750H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8750H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8750H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-8400H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8400H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8400H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8750H. Also, the Core i5-8400H has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-8750H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8400H. Despite this, the Core i5-8400H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-8750H.

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.