Intel Core i9-10850K vs Intel Core i9-11980HK

Core i9-10850K vs Core i9-11980HK benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10850K is faster than the Core i9-11980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11980HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10850K has slightly more cores than the Core i9-11980HK. Indeed, the Core i9-10850K has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11980HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11980HK. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11980HK. Also, the Core i9-10850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11980HK outputs less heat than Core i9-10850K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i9-10850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.