Intel Core i7-930 vs Intel Core i7-4702MQ

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 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

$ 307.29
$ 289.95
$ 17.34 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1941 points
2075 points
6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3145 points
3306 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1583 points
1711 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1519 points
1645 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.18 points
44.49 points
57% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1490 points
2821 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

432 points
919 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1449 points
2949 points
103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points
956 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.06 GHz
3.2 GHz
4% 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

729th of 1,089
707th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
2013 May

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 i7-930 vs Core i7-4702MQ benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-930 is faster than the Core i7-4702MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4702MQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-930 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4702MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4702MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4702MQ outputs less heat than Core i7-930 thanks to a significantly 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 i7-930 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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