Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i7-1195G7

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i7-1195G7 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-8950HK is faster than the Core i7-1195G7. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1195G7 in all gaming tests too.

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 i7-1195G7 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1195G7. Both the Core i9-8950HK and Core i7-1195G7 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-1195G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1195G7 outputs less heat than Core i9-8950HK thanks to a significantly 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.