Intel Core i7-2860QM vs Intel Core i7-9850HL

Core i7-2860QM vs Core i7-9850HL comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9850HL is faster than the Core i7-2860QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2860QM in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9850HL has significantly more cores than the Core i7-2860QM. Indeed, the Core i7-9850HL has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-2860QM. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2860QM. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2860QM has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 i7-2860QM thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-2860QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.