Intel Core i7-6820HK vs Intel Core i9-8950HK

Core i7-6820HK vs Core i9-8950HK comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Core i7-6820HK in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6820HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6820HK. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6820HK. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6820HK. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6820HK. 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.

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 i7-6820HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.