Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5234 points

6449 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6654 points

8487 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4782 points

5818 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4670 points

5677 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

153.40 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11641 points

13113 points

12% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

2.6 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

Identical

45 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

768 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

321st of 1,089

223rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9

11th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10980HK vs Core i9-11950H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11950H is faster than the Core i9-10980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10980HK in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.