Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Core i9-10980HK vs Core i7-1255U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10980HK beats the Core i7-1255U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1255U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1255U has slightly more cores than the Core i9-10980HK. Indeed, the Core i7-1255U has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1255U. Also, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Core i9-10980HK thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-1255U has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-1255U.

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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.