Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core i9-11980HK

Core i5-11600 vs Core i9-11980HK comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11980HK beats the Core i5-11600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11980HK has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11980HK outputs less heat than Core i5-11600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.