Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Core i9-13950HX

Core i9-11900K vs Core i9-13950HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13950HX beats the Core i9-11900K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900K. Indeed, the Core i9-13950HX has 24 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11900K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900K. The Core i9-13950HX 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.