Intel Core i7-2860QM vs Intel Core i7-3632QM

Core i7-2860QM vs Core i7-3632QM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3632QM beats the Core i7-2860QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2860QM in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores 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 i7-3632QM. Also, the Core i7-2860QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3632QM outputs less heat than Core i7-2860QM thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-2860QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.