Intel Core i7-4700HQ vs Intel Core i7-1355U

Core i7-4700HQ vs Core i7-1355U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1355U beats the Core i7-4700HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4700HQ in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1355U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4700HQ. Indeed, the Core i7-1355U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4700HQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4700HQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1355U. Despite this, the Core i7-1355U has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-4700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.