Intel Core i9-9980HK vs Intel Core i7-11370H

Core i9-9980HK vs Core i7-11370H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11370H 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-9980HK has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-11370H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11370H. The Core i7-11370H outputs less heat than Core i9-9980HK thanks to a slightly 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.