Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Core i7-6950X vs Core i7-11600H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6950X is faster than the Core i7-11600H. Despite this, the Core i7-11600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6950X has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-11600H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11600H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11600H. Despite this, the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-11600H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6950X. Despite this, the Core i7-6950X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-11600H.

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 i7-6950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.