Intel Core i7 Q 720 vs Intel Pentium G860

Core i7 Q 720 vs Pentium G860 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium G860 performs better than the Core i7 Q 720. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 720 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7 Q 720 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G860. Indeed, the Core i7 Q 720 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G860. It also has more threads than the Pentium G860. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G860 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7 Q 720. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7 Q 720 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Q 720 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.