Intel Core i7-10810U vs Intel Core i7-4700HQ

Core i7-10810U vs Core i7-4700HQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4700HQ beats the Core i7-10810U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-10810U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10810U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-4700HQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4700HQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4700HQ has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10810U. Despite this, the Core i7-10810U has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10810U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4700HQ CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-10810U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.