Intel Core i7-4980HQ vs Intel Core i7-1265U

Core i7-4980HQ vs Core i7-1265U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1265U performs better than the Core i7-4980HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4980HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1265U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-4980HQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4980HQ. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4980HQ has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1265U outputs less heat than Core i7-4980HQ thanks to a significantly 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 i7-4980HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.