Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Core i7-11700K vs Core i9-11950H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700K beats the Core i9-11950H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11950H in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11950H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i9-11950H outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K thanks to a 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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.