Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Core i7-8086K vs Core i7-11600H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11600H beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11600H. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-11600H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8086K. The Core i7-11600H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.