Intel Core i7 6700HQ vs 4720HQ

older Released July, 2015

Reasons to buy the Intel Core i7 6700HQ

	Much newer manufacturing process 14 nm		Better CompuBench 1.5 face detection score 21.39 mPixels/s
	Newer Jul, 2015		Better overclocked clock speed (Water) 3.5 GHz

older Released January, 2015

Reasons to buy the 4720HQ

	Much better performance per watt 17.18 pt/W		Much better performance per dollar 2.14 pt/$
	Better turbo clock speed 1,200 MHz		Higher GPU clock speed 400 MHz

	Performance
	Benchmark performance using all cores
Core i7 6700HQ 6.1 Core i7 4720HQ 7.1 7500U 5.7
PCMark 8 Home 3.0 Accelerated, PassMark and 1 more

	Single-core Performance
	Individual core benchmark performance
Core i7 6700HQ 7.1 Core i7 4720HQ 8.7 7500U 7.4
PassMark (Single Core), Geekbench 3 Single Core and 1 more

	Integrated Graphics
	Integrated GPU performance for graphics
Core i7 6700HQ n.d. Core i7 4720HQ 6.8 7500U n.d.
Sky Diver and Cloud Gate

	Integrated Graphics (OpenCL)
	Integrated GPU performance for parallel computing
Core i7 6700HQ 7.9 Core i7 4720HQ 6.7 7500U 6.2
CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 4 more

	Performance per Watt
	How efficiently does the processor use electricity?
Core i7 6700HQ 5.3 Core i7 4720HQ 5.3 7500U 5.8
Sky Diver, Cloud Gate, CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 11 more

	Value
	Are you paying a premium for performance?
Core i7 6700HQ n.d. Core i7 4720HQ n.d. 7500U n.d.
Sky Diver, Cloud Gate, CompuBench 1.5 Bitcoin mining and 11 more

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Intel Core i7 6700HQ

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Much newer manufacturing process

14 nm

22 nm

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor

Better CompuBench 1.5 face detection score

21.39 mPixels/s

13.55 mPixels/s

Around 60% better CompuBench 1.5 face detection score

Newer

Jul, 2015

Jan, 2015

Release date 6 months later

Better overclocked clock speed (Water)

3.5 GHz

2.6 GHz

Around 35% better overclocked clock speed (Water)

Reasons to consider the
Intel Core i7 4720HQ

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Much better performance per watt

17.18 pt/W

5.4 pt/W

Around 3.2x better performance per watt

Much better performance per dollar

2.14 pt/$

0.64 pt/$

More than 3.2x better performance per dollar

Better turbo clock speed

1,200 MHz

1,050 MHz

Around 15% better turbo clock speed

Higher GPU clock speed

400 MHz

350 MHz

Around 15% higher GPU clock speed

CompuBench 1.5 (Bitcoin mining) Data courtesy CompuBench

Core i7 6700HQ

30.94 mHash/s

Core i7 4720HQ

15.16 mHash/s

CompuBench 1.5 (Face detection)

Core i7 6700HQ

21.39 mPixels/s

Core i7 4720HQ

13.55 mPixels/s

CompuBench 1.5 (T-Rex) Data courtesy CompuBench

Core i7 6700HQ

1.48 fps

Core i7 4720HQ

-1 fps

GeekBench 3 (Multi-core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i7 6700HQ

11,926

Core i7 4720HQ

12,250

GeekBench 3 (Single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i7 6700HQ

3,066

Core i7 4720HQ

3,216

GeekBench 3 (AES single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core i7 6700HQ

4,040 MB/s

Core i7 4720HQ

4,085,000 MB/s

PassMark Data courtesy Passmark

Core i7 6700HQ

8,134

Core i7 4720HQ

8,034

PassMark (Single Core)

Core i7 6700HQ

1,802

Core i7 4720HQ

1,916

summary	Core i7 6700HQ	4720HQ
Clock speed	2.6 GHz	2.6 GHz
Turbo clock speed	3.5 GHz	3.6 GHz
Cores	Quad core	Quad core
Is unlocked	No	No
features
Has a NX bit	Yes	Yes
Supports trusted computing	No	No
Has virtualization support	Yes	Yes
Instruction set extensions
SSE2
MMX
SSE4
AVX
SSE3
SSE
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
Supplemental SSE3
AES
AVX 2.0
Supports dynamic frequency scaling	Yes	Yes
power consumption
TDP	45W	47W
Annual home energy cost	10.84 $/year	11.32 $/year
Annual commercial energy cost	39.42 $/year	41.17 $/year
Performance per watt	5.4 pt/W	17.18 pt/W
Typical power consumption	36.56W	38.19W
bus
Architecture	FSB	DMI 2.0
Number of links	1	1
Transfer rate	8,000 MT/s	5,000 MT/s

details	Core i7 6700HQ	4720HQ
Architecture	x86-64	x86-64
Threads	8	8
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
L2 cache per core	0.25 MB/core	0.25 MB/core
L3 cache	6 MB	6 MB
L3 cache per core	1.5 MB/core	1.5 MB/core
Manufacture process	14 nm	22 nm
Max CPUs	1	1
overclocking
Overclocked clock speed	3.5 GHz	3.56 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Water)	3.5 GHz	2.6 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Air)	3.5 GHz	3.56 GHz
integrated graphics
GPU	GPU	GPU
Label	Intel® HD Graphics 530	Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Number of displays supported	3	3
GPU clock speed	350 MHz	400 MHz
Turbo clock speed	1,050 MHz	1,200 MHz
memory controller
Memory controller	Built-in	Built-in
Memory type
DDR3L-1600
DDR3
Channels	Dual Channel	Dual Channel
Supports ECC	No	No
Maximum bandwidth	25,600 MB/s	12,800 MB/s
Maximum memory size	65,536 MB	32,768 MB

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Skippah (04:57 PM, June 22, 2017)

I am going for 6700HQ since that laptop I am going to buy has DDR4 RAM :DD

Renegát (08:00 PM, November 5, 2016)

What the heck is "Performance per watt 6.41 pt/W 18.35 pt/W" ??

Girish Kamat (10:10 AM, October 16, 2016)

I have used 4700MQ on my Alienware 14 notebook which is comparable to 6700HQ. The overall performance on 4 cores was better than 6700 HQ (3.2 Ghz vs 3.08 GHz) I have on new Alienware 15 laptop especially for CPU intensive C++ compilation with 6 million lines of code. I went for Alienware R2 for PCIe interface which will support ultra-fast Samsung SSD 960Pro/Evo and longer battery life 92WHr vs 69 WHr on earlier one. Unfortunately Intel has messed on 6th generation like 5th generation which I skipped. You neither get higher clock speeds nor more cores. As far power savings 2 W do not matter in real life. So my new laptop is CPU constrained.

Adam (11:22 AM, July 14, 2016)

when using all four cores the i7-4720HQ can do 1.2 GHZ better, who cares about newer architecture, the i7-4720HQ still wins vs the 6700HQ

Adam (11:18 AM, July 14, 2016)

Also the 6700HQ can clock all four cores at only 3.1 GHZ vs 3.4 GHZ of the i7-4720HQ that is significantly higher, and trust me, you can tell the difference. The i7-4720HQ is way better in every way

Adam (11:13 AM, July 14, 2016)

The i7-4720HQ is by far the faster of these two processors, I have owned both in laptops, and the speed of the i7-4720HQ is much much faster, when you open up the task-manager and watch how many GHZ it is running at, the i7-4720HQ will constantly hit 3.54 GHZ where as the 6700HQ will only max out at around 3.34 GHZ. Also the i7-4720HQ can clock 4 cores at the same time at 3.4 GHZ so I am not sure what most people are talking about as far as this is not a good multi tasker, but this thing is way faster in comparison to the 6700HQ...

ada (03:13 PM, July 13, 2016)

>And it is better in almost everything. Nah, from the test it's clear that it's only better when it comes to integrated GPU tasks which doesn't matter much, since you are gonna use dGPU anyway. When it comes to CPU processing power it's actually worse (because of the higher max. CPU clock in 4720HQ)

costeakai (08:07 AM, June 1, 2016)

it says it ALL: the bus transfer rate

Sal (08:09 PM, April 17, 2016)

Buy both and tell us which one works better :p

Guest (01:59 PM, March 29, 2016)

i dont know why but skylake went backwards in single core performance. you can see that when comparing it to haswells single core performance.

Mike Adrian (09:31 AM, March 8, 2016)

Overpriced.

Joukyuu (06:24 PM, March 1, 2016)

whichever has better cooling and if it's the same I'd go with the 980m

Zenstrive (06:00 AM, February 23, 2016)

so the difference is not that much. Core 6700HQ with 960m or 4720HQ with 980M? Hmm....

qwe (10:31 PM, January 26, 2016)

gururlandım it

Oğuzhan Melez (10:31 PM, January 20, 2016)

Lan gavur kardeş, 6700hq daha yeni çıkan bir işlemci. Yeni mimari ve 14nm. Tabii ki 6700hq daha iyi. If he does not understand what I said look at the google translation. Hep biz mi google translate' e kopyala yapıştır yapacağız lan! Türkçe ingilizce karışık yazdım ki google translatede uğraş dur.

YourBestReview (04:57 AM, January 15, 2016)

What you think of Dell XPS 15 with skylake?

JJ (11:33 AM, January 14, 2016)

So it's better to have 6700HQ in laptop than 4720HQ ? because I'm buying a laptop... :p

Guest (03:53 PM, January 12, 2016)

And it is better in almost everything. Just the single-core tasks goes faster in the 4720HQ and nowadays everyone try to distribute the load between all the cores.

YourBestReview (09:42 AM, January 2, 2016)

This is an eye opening article. I have always thought that the 6700HQ is better.

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