Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i5-11320H

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i5-11320H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-8950HK performs better than the Core i5-11320H. Despite this, the Core i5-11320H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11320H. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-11320H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11320H. The Core i5-11320H outputs less heat than Core i9-8950HK thanks to a slightly 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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.