Intel Core i9-9900 vs Intel Core i9-9980HK

Core i9-9900 vs Core i9-9980HK specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900 is faster than the Core i9-9980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9980HK in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores 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 i9-9980HK. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i9-9980HK 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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 i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.