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Is the Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. But this CPU contains 6 Cores and 12 Threads. Paired with a good videocard, is this CPU Good for Gaming? This CPU should be able to play most games, but may be a bottleneck on newer releases. [More ...]
Description: Intel UHD Graphics 630
Class: Laptop
Socket: FCBGA1440
Clockspeed: 2.9 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.8 GHz
Cores: 6 Threads: 12
Typical TDP: 45 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 6 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 6 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 6 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 12 MB
Memory Support: Max. Memory Size: 64 GB (DDR4-2666, LPDDR3-2133)
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz, Intel Core i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q2 2018
CPUmark/$Price: 17.90
Overall Rank:
1203rd fastest in multithreading out of 4952 CPUs
967th fastest in single threading out of 4952 CPUs
285th fastest in out of 1444 Laptop CPUs
Last Price Change: $583.00 USD (2018-04-01)
| Integer Math | 37,198 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 22,320 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 34 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 18,873 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 3,780 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 144,420 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 721 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 8,178 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,426 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,110 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 20,977 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 20,307 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 18,430 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 16,902 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,614 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,154 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 11,776 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,773 | |
| Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90GHz | 10,438 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,695 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 51.41 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 31.38 | |
| Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90GHz | 17.90 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 11.22 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | NA | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,904 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,685 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,064 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 3,040 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 2,935 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,668 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,649 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,609 | |
| Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90GHz | 2,426 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,417 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2369488 - Jan 26 2025 | 11029 | |
| BL5085147 - Jan 25 2025 | 11783 | |
| BL5085094 - Jan 25 2025 | 7492 | |
| BL5084723 - Jan 21 2025 | 7390 | |
| BL2354620 - Jan 20 2025 | 10595 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900HX | 7,095 | |
| Intel Core i9-13950HX | 6,923 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HX | 6,875 | |
| Intel Core i9-13980HX | 6,808 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D | 6,511 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7840HX | 6,230 | |
| Intel Core i7-13850HX | 6,201 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX | 6,196 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700HX | 6,180 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HK | 5,967 | |
| Intel Core i9-13905H | 5,904 | |
| Intel Core i7-14650HX | 5,871 | |
| Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90GHz | 1,832 |
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