Intel Core i7-960 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

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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Intel Core i7-4900MQ

Price

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$ 150.00

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$ 200.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1995 points

2307 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3216 points

3862 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1629 points

1859 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1563 points

1784 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.27 points

54.97 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1700 points

2842 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

503 points

933 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1672 points

3402 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

492 points

1123 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.46 GHz

3.8 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

47 W

176% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

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

719th of 1,089

659th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 November

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

Core i7-960 vs Core i7-4900MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-960 is faster than the Core i7-4900MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4900MQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4900MQ outputs less heat than Core i7-960 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 i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.