Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Core i9-8950HK

Core i7-6700HQ vs Core i9-8950HK specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-8950HK is faster than the Core i7-6700HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-6700HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6700HQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700HQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6700HQ. 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.

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 i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.