Intel Core i7-4500U vs Intel Core i7 Q 740

Core i7-4500U vs Core i7 Q 740 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 Q 740 beats the Core i7-4500U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 Q 740.

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 i7-4500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.