Intel Core i9-9880H vs Intel Core i7-10850H

Core i9-9880H vs Core i7-10850H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9880H beats the Core i7-10850H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-10850H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9880H has slightly more cores than the Core i7-10850H. Indeed, the Core i9-9880H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-10850H. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10850H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9880H. Also, the Core i7-10850H 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-9880H has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10850H. The Core i9-9880H also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i9-9880H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.