Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs Intel Core i7-4790S

Core i7-6920HQ vs Core i7-4790S specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790S beats the Core i7-6920HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6920HQ in all gaming tests too.

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 i7-4790S has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6920HQ. Also, the Core i7-4790S has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6920HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4790S CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-6920HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.