Intel Core i9-9900 vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Core i9-9900 vs Core i9-11950H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900 beats the Core i9-11950H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11950H in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11950H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i9-11950H outputs less heat than Core i9-9900 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 i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.