Intel Core i9-9980HK vs Intel Core i5-1145G7

Core i9-9980HK vs Core i5-1145G7 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1145G7 beats the Core i9-9980HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9980HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9980HK has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-1145G7 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1145G7. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-1145G7 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-9980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1145G7 outputs less heat than Core i9-9980HK 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 i9-9980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.