Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

Core i9-8950HK vs Core Ultra 7 155U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 155U beats the Core i9-8950HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-8950HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-8950HK. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 155U. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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.