Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i5-9400F

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i5-9400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Core i5-9400F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9400F in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i9-8950HK has more threads. According to our data, the Core i9-8950HK and Core i5-9400F have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-8950HK CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-9400F CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-8950HK also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.