Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Core i9-11980HK

Core i9-11900K vs Core i9-11980HK comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900K beats the Core i9-11980HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11980HK 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11980HK. Also, the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11980HK outputs less heat than Core i9-11900K 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 i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.