Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Core i7-1270P

Core i9-10980HK vs Core i7-1270P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1270P is faster than the Core i9-10980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10980HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1270P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-10980HK has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1270P. Also, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1270P 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1270P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10980HK. The Core i7-1270P also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.