Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs Intel Core i7-4610M

Core i7-6920HQ vs Core i7-4610M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6920HQ is faster than the Core i7-4610M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4610M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6920HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-4610M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4610M. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4610M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6920HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-6920HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4610M outputs less heat than Core i7-6920HQ 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 i7-6920HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.