Intel Core i7-4720HQ vs Intel Core i7-3612QM

Core i7-4720HQ vs Core i7-3612QM comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3612QM performs better than the Core i7-4720HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4720HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4720HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3612QM. Also, the Core i7-4720HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3612QM outputs less heat than Core i7-4720HQ 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 i7-4720HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.