Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i7-3632QM

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i7-3632QM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Core i7-3632QM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3632QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-3632QM has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3632QM. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3632QM. Also, the Core i9-8950HK has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3632QM 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.