Intel Core i9-11900H vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Core i9-11900H vs Core i7-11600H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11600H beats the Core i9-11900H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-11900H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-11600H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11600H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900H. Despite this, the Core i9-11900H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i9-11900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.