Intel Core i7-4710HQ vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Core i7-4710HQ vs Core i9-12900T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900T beats the Core i7-4710HQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4710HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4710HQ. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4710HQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4710HQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4710HQ has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Core i7-4710HQ thanks to a slightly 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 i7-4710HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.