Intel Core i7-4980HQ vs Intel Core i7-1355U

Core i7-4980HQ vs Core i7-1355U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1355U is faster 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 i7-1355U 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4980HQ has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1355U. Despite this, the Core i7-1355U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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.