Intel Core i7-3770S vs Intel Core i7-4850HQ

Core i7-3770S vs Core i7-4850HQ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4850HQ beats the Core i7-3770S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3770S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3770S has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4850HQ. Also, the Core i7-3770S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4850HQ outputs less heat than Core i7-3770S 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 i7-3770S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.