Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i7-11370H

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i7-11370H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Core i7-11370H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11370H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-11370H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11370H. The Core i7-11370H 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.

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.