Intel Core i7-4558U vs Intel Core i7-930

Core i7-4558U vs Core i7-930 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-930 beats the Core i7-4558U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4558U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-930 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4558U. Indeed, the Core i7-930 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-4558U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4558U. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-4558U and Core i7-930 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-4558U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4558U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-930 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-4558U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.