Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i5-14600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14600K beats the Core i9-8950HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-8950HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14600K has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-8950HK. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-8950HK. Also, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-8950HK. The Core i5-14600K also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.