Intel Core i7-11370H vs Intel Core i7-6950X

Core i7-11370H vs Core i7-6950X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6950X performs better than the Core i7-11370H. Despite this, the Core i7-11370H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6950X has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-11370H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11370H. A Core i7-11370H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6950X CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-11370H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.