Intel Core i9-10885H vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i9-10885H vs Core i7-12800H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12800H performs better than the Core i9-10885H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10885H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-10885H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10885H. Both the Core i9-10885H and Core i7-12800H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H 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.

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 i9-10885H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.