Intel Core i7-4810MQ vs Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3

Last updated: 2023-11-07

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Core i7-4810MQ		Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
CPU comparison Intel Core i7-4810MQ or Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The Intel Core i7-4810MQ has 4 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.80 GHz. Up to 32 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i7-4810MQ was released in Q4/2013. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.00 GHz. The CPU supports up to 16 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 was released in Q3/2022.

Intel Core i7 (298)	Family	Qualcomm Snapdragon (102)
Intel Core i 4000M/4000H (38)	CPU group	Qualcomm Snapdragon SQ3 (1)
4	Generation	2
Haswell H	Architecture	Kryo 680
Mobile	Segment	Mobile
--	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Intel Core i7-4810MQ is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.80 GHz (3.80 GHz). The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 has 8 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.00 GHz.
Intel Core i7-4810MQ	Characteristic	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
4	Cores	8
8	Threads	8
normal	Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Yes	Hyperthreading	No
No	Overclocking ?	No
2.80 GHz (3.80 GHz)	A-Core	3.00 GHz 4x Kryo 680 Gold
--	B-Core	2.40 GHz 4x Kryo 680 Silver
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
Intel Core i7-4810MQ	Characteristic	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
Intel HD Graphics 4600	GPU	Qualcomm Adreno 690
0.40 GHz	GPU frequency	--
1.30 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	--
7.5	GPU Generation	6
22 nm	Technology	7 nm
3	Max. displays	0
20	Compute units	--
160	Shader	--
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
2 GB	Max. GPU Memory	--
11.1	DirectX Version	12.0

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
Intel HD Graphics 4600	GPU	Qualcomm Adreno 690
No	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode
No	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	Decode / Encode
No	Codec VP9	Decode
No	Codec VP8	Decode / Encode
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	Decode
Decode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The Intel Core i7-4810MQ supports a maximum of 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 can connect up to 16 GB of memory in 8 memory channels.
Intel Core i7-4810MQ	Characteristic	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
DDR3L-1600	Memory	LPDDR4X-2133
32 GB	Max. Memory	16 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	8 (Octa Channel)
25.6 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	68.3 GB/s
No	ECC	No
--	L2 Cache	--
6.00 MB	L3 Cache	--
3.0	PCIe version	--
16	PCIe lanes	--
15.8 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	--
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Intel Core i7-4810MQ has a TDP of 47 W, that of the Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 is --.
Intel Core i7-4810MQ	Characteristic	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
47 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	--
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	--
--	Tjunction max.	--
Technical details The Intel Core i7-4810MQ has a 6.00 MB cache, while the Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 cache has a total of 0.00 MB.
Intel Core i7-4810MQ	Characteristic	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
22 nm	Technology	5 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	ISA extensions	--
PGA 946	Socket	--
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d	Virtualization	None
Yes	AES-NI	No
Windows 10, Linux	Operating systems	Android, Windows 10 (ARM)
Q4/2013	Release date	Q3/2022
--	Release price	--

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks

Intel Core i7-4810MQ (76%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 (91%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks

Intel Core i7-4810MQ (72%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 (96%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	856 (51%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	1688 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	3032 (40%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	7538 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	1476 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	1261 (85%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	683.8 (65%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	1057 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	143 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	117 (82%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	639 (83%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	771 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	0 (0%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	605 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	3571 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	1091 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	3339 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	0 (0%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	198 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.30 GHz	416 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 Qualcomm Adreno 690 @ 0.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	6045 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz	1594 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Devices using this processor
Intel Core i7-4810MQ	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
Unknown	Microsoft Surface Pro 9

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