Intel Core i7-3630QM vs Intel Core i7-4712MQ

Core i7-3630QM vs Core i7-4712MQ benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3630QM is faster than the Core i7-4712MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4712MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i7-3630QM has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4712MQ. Also, the Core i7-3630QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4712MQ 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.

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 i7-3630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.