Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs Intel Core i9-8950HK

Core i7-6920HQ vs Core i9-8950HK comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-8950HK performs better than the Core i7-6920HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-6920HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-6920HQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6920HQ. Both the Core i7-6920HQ and Core i9-8950HK have the same clock speed. Despite this, 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 i7-6920HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.