Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i7-1355U

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i7-1355U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Core i7-1355U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1355U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1355U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i9-8950HK that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1355U. Despite this, the Core i7-1355U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1355U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-8950HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.