Intel Core i7-4770S vs Intel Core i7-4850HQ

Core i7-4770S vs Core i7-4850HQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4850HQ beats the Core i7-4770S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4770S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4770S has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4850HQ. Also, the Core i7-4770S has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4850HQ outputs less heat than Core i7-4770S thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-4770S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.