Intel Core i7-2630QM vs Intel Core i7-4600M

Core i7-2630QM vs Core i7-4600M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2630QM beats the Core i7-4600M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4600M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-2630QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4600M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4600M. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4600M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2630QM. Also, the Core i7-4600M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4600M outputs less heat than Core i7-2630QM thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-2630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.