Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Core i7-11850H

Core i7-8086K vs Core i7-11850H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11850H performs better than the Core i7-8086K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11850H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8086K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11850H. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11850H outputs less heat than Core i7-8086K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.