Intel Core i7-4610M vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400

Core i7-4610M vs Core 2 Quad Q9400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q9400 beats the Core i7-4610M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4610M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q9400 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4610M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4610M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9400. A Core i7-4610M CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9400 CPU because of its 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 i7-4610M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.