Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i7-4930MX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Core i7-4930MX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4930MX 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 i7-4930MX that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4930MX. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4930MX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-8950HK CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4930MX CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4930MX. The Core i9-8950HK also has significantly more 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.