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

Core i7-6820HQ vs Core i9-8950HK specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-8950HK is faster than the Core i7-6820HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-6820HQ 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 i7-6820HQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6820HQ. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6820HQ. 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-6820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.