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Core i7-9850H vs i3-8350K


Description
Both models i7-9850H and i3-8350K are based on Coffee Lake architecture.

Coffee Lake is the second refinement of Intel’s 14nm (Tri-Gate) technology. While it uses LGA1151 socket, it is incompatible with previous generations due to electrical changes in socket’s pins so these CPUs require Z370 chipset. This kind of generation introduced more cores in every range to compete with new AMD’s architecture. Coffee Lake uses DDR4 memory at 2400MHz for i3 and at 2666MHz for i5, i7 CPUs plus iGPU frequency has been increased 50MHz with respect to previous generation.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i7-9850H gets a score of 289.3 k points while the i3-8350K gets 237.6 k points.

Summarizing, the i7-9850H is 1.2 times faster than the i3-8350K. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ed
906eb
Core
Coffee Lake-H
Coffee Lake-S
Architecture
Base frecuency
2.6 GHz
4 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.6 GHz
4 GHz
Socket
BGA 1440
LGA 1151
Cores/Threads
6/12
4/4
TDP
45 W
91 W
Cache L1 (d+i)
6x32+6x32 kB
4x32+4x32 kB
Cache L2
6x256 kB
4x256 kB
Cache L3
12288 kB
8192 kB
Date
June 2019
October 2017
Mean monothread perf.
49.24k points
68.36k points
Mean multithread perf.
289.3k points
237.63k points

AVX2 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode III (AVX2), like AVX1, is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the second version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX2 compatible CPU was released in 2013.
Monothread
i7-9850H
i3-8350K
Test#1 (Integers)
19.83k
27.29k (x1.38)
Test#2 (FP)
16.52k
24.19k (x1.46)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
3.87k
5.75k (x1.49)
Test#1 (Memory)
9.02k
11.13k (x1.23)
TOTAL
49.24k
68.36k (x1.39)

Multithread

i7-9850H

i3-8350K
Test#1 (Integers)
130.19k
107.78k (x0.83)
Test#2 (FP)
121.44k
95.93k (x0.79)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
28.05k
22.65k (x0.81)
Test#1 (Memory)
9.62k
11.26k (x1.17)
TOTAL
289.3k
237.63k (x0.82)

Performance/W
i7-9850H
i3-8350K
Test#1 (Integers)
2893 points/W
1184 points/W
Test#2 (FP)
2699 points/W
1054 points/W
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
623 points/W
249 points/W
Test#1 (Memory)
214 points/W
124 points/W
TOTAL
6429 points/W
2611 points/W

Performance/GHz
i7-9850H
i3-8350K
Test#1 (Integers)
4311 points/GHz
6823 points/GHz
Test#2 (FP)
3591 points/GHz
6048 points/GHz
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
841 points/GHz
1436 points/GHz
Test#1 (Memory)
1961 points/GHz
2784 points/GHz
TOTAL
10703 points/GHz
17091 points/GHz

Monothread performance graph
Monothread performance graphics gives the performance vs time. They are useful to measure the time it takes to the CPU to reach the maximum performance.

Usually, CPU's performance will be steady during these tests but if it has a slow frequency strategy, the first samples will show a lower score.


Test#1 (Integers) [points vs time]

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Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]

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Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]

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Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]

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Multithread performance graph
Multithread graphs measure the performance against a heavy load during certain time.

If CPU's TDP doesn't limit the frequency and the machine is properly cooled, performance should remain steady vs time. Otherwise, the performance score will oscillate or decrease over time.


Test#1 (Integers) [points vs time]

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Test#2 (FP) [points vs time]

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Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [points vs time]

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Test#1 (Memory) [points vs time]

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