Intel Core i9-11950H vs Intel Core i9-7900X

Core i9-11950H vs Core i9-7900X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7900X beats the Core i9-11950H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores than the Core i9-11950H. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11950H. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11950H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11950H. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11950H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7900X CPU because of its 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 i9-11950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.