Intel Core i5-11320H vs Intel Core i7-9850H

Core i5-11320H vs Core i7-9850H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9850H beats the Core i5-11320H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11320H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-11320H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11320H. A Core i5-11320H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9850H CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-11320H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.