Intel Core i7-3630QM vs Intel Core i7-4600M

Core i7-3630QM vs Core i7-4600M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3630QM is faster than the Core i7-4600M. Despite this, the Core i7-4600M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3630QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4600M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4600M. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4600M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3630QM. Also, the Core i7-4600M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4600M outputs less heat than Core i7-3630QM 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 i7-3630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.