Intel Core i7-11800H vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6296 points

6449 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8432 points

8487 points

0.65% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5628 points

5818 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5474 points

5677 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.35 points

153.40 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14088 points

7% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

13113 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.6 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

Identical

45 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

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128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

Identical

768 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

Identical

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

236th of 1,089

223rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7

11th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-11800H vs Core i9-11950H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11800H is faster than the Core i9-11950H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11950H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11800H. Also, the Core i9-11950H 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.

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 i7-11800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.