Intel Core i7-8850H vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Core i7-8850H vs Core i3-1215U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8850H beats the Core i3-1215U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-8850H has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8850H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1215U. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Core i7-8850H 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 i3-1215U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-1215U.

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 i7-8850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.