Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Core i9-12950HX

Core i9-11900K vs Core i9-12950HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12950HX is faster than the Core i9-11900K. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12950HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-11900K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-11900K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12950HX. Also, the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12950HX 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. In terms of cache, the Core i9-12950HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900K. The Core i9-12950HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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