Intel Core i7-11850H vs Intel Core i7-6950X

Core i7-11850H vs Core i7-6950X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6950X is faster than the Core i7-11850H. Despite this, the Core i7-11850H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-6950X has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-11850H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11850H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11850H. Despite this, the Core i7-11850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-11850H 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 i7-11850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.