Intel Core i7-2670QM vs Intel Core i7-4600M

Core i7-2670QM vs Core i7-4600M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2670QM is faster than the Core i7-4600M. Despite this, the Core i7-4600M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-2670QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-4600M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4600M. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4600M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2670QM. Also, the Core i7-4600M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4600M outputs less heat than Core i7-2670QM thanks to a slightly 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 Core i7-2670QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.