Intel Core i7-4600U vs Intel Core i7 Q 740

Core i7-4600U vs Core i7 Q 740 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 Q 740 is faster than the Core i7-4600U. Despite this, the Core i7-4600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-4600U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4600U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4600U 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 i7-4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.