Intel Core i9-10920X vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Core i9-10920X vs Core i9-11950H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10920X beats the Core i9-11950H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10920X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i9-11950H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11950H. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10920X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11950H. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11950H outputs less heat than Core i9-10920X 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 i9-10920X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.