Core i9-11980HK review: Intel’s flagship CPU slugs it out with Ryzen laptops

11th-gen vs. 10th-gen vs. Ryzen 5000 vs. Ryzen 4000: Fight!

Intel isn’t messing around with its new 10nm “Tiger Lake H” processors for gaming laptops and work notebooks. We’ve already seen how Intel’s 11th-gen Core i7-11800H offers impressive performance over its older 10th-gen sibling and trade blows with AMD’s massively improved Ryzen laptop chips—but how does the new top-end Core i9-11980HK perform?

Today, we’ll give you a taste of where Intel’s Core i9-11980HK lands, but we cannot do so without giving you the lecture. 

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