Intel Core i7-8705G vs Intel Core i7-4710MQ

Core i7-8705G vs Core i7-4710MQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4710MQ beats the Core i7-8705G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8705G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8705G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4710MQ. Also, the Core i7-8705G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4710MQ outputs less heat than Core i7-8705G thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-8705G also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-8705G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.