Intel Core i7-4980HQ vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Core i7-4980HQ vs Core i7-8850H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8850H performs better than the Core i7-4980HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4980HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-4980HQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4980HQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4980HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8850H outputs less heat than Core i7-4980HQ thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-4980HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.