AMD A10-7850K vs Intel Core i7-2670QM

A10-7850K vs Core i7-2670QM benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2670QM is faster than the A10-7850K. Despite this, the A10-7850K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-2670QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A10-7850K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A10-7850K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-7850K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2670QM. The Core i7-2670QM outputs less heat than A10-7850K 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 A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.