Intel Core i7-2820QM vs Intel Core i7-2860QM

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Intel Core i7-2860QM

Price

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$ 229.95

$ 98.02

$ 131.93 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2212 points

447% significantly better overall score

404 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3474 points

455% significantly better gaming score

625 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1842 points

446% significantly better multitasking score

337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1774 points

447% significantly better heavy workload score

324 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.94 points

27.93 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1202 points

1628 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

520 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

513 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1622 points

1715 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

519 points

562 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.5 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

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

680th of 1,089

1,081st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-2820QM vs Core i7-2860QM benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2860QM performs better than the Core i7-2820QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2820QM in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2860QM has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2820QM. Also, the Core i7-2860QM 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 i7-2820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.