Intel Core i7-2760QM vs Intel Core i7-9850HL

Core i7-2760QM vs Core i7-9850HL comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2760QM beats the Core i7-9850HL in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9850HL in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9850HL has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-2760QM has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2760QM. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2760QM has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9850HL outputs less heat than Core i7-2760QM thanks to a 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 i7-2760QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.