Intel Core i9-11950H vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Core i9-11950H vs Core i5-1235U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11950H performs better than the Core i5-1235U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-11950H has 8 cores. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has more threads than the Core i5-1235U. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11950H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Core i9-11950H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i9-11950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.