Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Core i7-4610M

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 99.95
$ 1.06 slightly less expensive
$ 101.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points
20% slightly better overall score
1220 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points
2493 points
0.16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points
31% slightly better multitasking score
895 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score
858 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
29.10 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points
1622 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points
760 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points
1907 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points
1028 points
147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.79 GHz
3 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.93 GHz
3.7 GHz
26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
37 W
251% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB
32 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

814th of 1,089
895th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-920 vs Core i7-4610M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-920 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4610M. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-4610M. 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 i7-920. Also, the Core i7-4610M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4610M outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a 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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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