Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs Intel Core i9-8950HK

Core i5-7300HQ vs Core i9-8950HK specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-8950HK is faster than the Core i5-7300HQ. Despite this, the Core i5-7300HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores than the Core i5-7300HQ. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-7300HQ. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7300HQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300HQ. Also, the Core i9-8950HK 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 info from our database shows that the Core i9-8950HK has more L2 cache than the Core i5-7300HQ. The Core i9-8950HK also has significantly 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. For instance, the Core i5-7300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.