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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5291 points
42% slightly better overall score
3722 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6768 points
21% slightly better gaming score
5577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4820 points
50% significantly better multitasking score
3201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4703 points
52% significantly better heavy workload score
3089 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points
61% significantly higher Blender score
75.98 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11641 points
20% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
9628 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
41% slightly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
800 KiB
56% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

315th of 1,092
464th of 1,092

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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