Intel Core i7-960 vs Intel Core i7-9850HL

Core i7-960 vs Core i7-9850HL comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-960 is faster than the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9850HL has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-960 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-960. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-960 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9850HL outputs less heat than Core i7-960 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 i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.