Intel Core i7-2820QM vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Core i7-2820QM vs Core i9-12900T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900T beats the Core i7-2820QM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-2820QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-2820QM that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2820QM. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2820QM has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Core i7-2820QM thanks to a slightly 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 i7-2820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.