Intel Core i7-3820QM vs Intel Core i7-9850HL

Core i7-3820QM vs Core i7-9850HL specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9850HL performs better than the Core i7-3820QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3820QM 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 i7-3820QM. Indeed, the Core i7-9850HL has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3820QM. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3820QM. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3820QM has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 i7-3820QM 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 i7-3820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.