Intel Core i7-4720HQ vs Intel Core i7-9850HL

Core i7-4720HQ vs Core i7-9850HL specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9850HL is faster than the Core i7-4720HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4720HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9850HL has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-4720HQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4720HQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4720HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9850HL outputs less heat than Core i7-4720HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-9850HL has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4720HQ. The Core i7-9850HL also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-4720HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.