Intel Core i9-11980HK vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Core i9-11980HK vs Core i7-12800H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800H beats the Core i9-11980HK in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11980HK. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11980HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11980HK. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12800H. Also, the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i9-11980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.