Intel Core i7-2760QM vs Intel Core i7-2820QM

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Intel Core i7-2820QM

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$ 122.02

$ 107.93 significantly less expensive

$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2123 points

2212 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3444 points

3474 points

0.87% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1738 points

1842 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1671 points

1774 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

33.27 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

26.94 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1422 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1202 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

479 points

520 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1606 points

1622 points

1.00% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

528 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

519 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

Identical

45 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

701st of 1,089

680th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-2760QM vs Core i7-2820QM benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2760QM beats the Core i7-2820QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2820QM in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-2760QM has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2820QM. Also, the Core i7-2760QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-2760QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.