Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Core i9-10980HK vs Core i7-11600H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10980HK performs better than the Core i7-11600H. Despite this, the Core i7-11600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10980HK has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-11600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11600H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-11600H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10980HK. The Core i7-11600H also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.