Intel Core i7-2860QM Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i7-2860QM has 4 cores with 8 threads and is based on the 2. gen of the Intel Core i7 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the PGA 988 socket and was released in Q4/2011. The Intel Core i7-2860QM scores 716 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 2,637 points.
Intel Core i7-2860QM

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i7-2860QM. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i7-2860QM.

Name: Intel Core i7-2860QM
Family: Intel Core i7 (293)
CPU group: Intel Core i 2000M (46)
Architecture: Sandy Bridge H
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 2
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-2860QM has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-2860QM is 2.50 GHz (3.60 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 4 / 8
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 4x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 2.50 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 3.60 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores): --

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-2860QM has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i7-2860QM uses the Intel HD Graphics 3000, which has 96 texture shaders and 12 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: Intel HD Graphics 3000
GPU frequency: 0.65 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.30 GHz
Compute units: 12
Shader: 96
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q1/2011
Max. displays: 2
Generation: 6
Direct X: 10.1
Technology: 32 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 2 GB
Frame Generation: No

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.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): No
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: No
VP9: No
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: No

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 32 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 25.6 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR3-1066
DDR3-1333
DDR3-1600
25.6 GB/s
21.3 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory: 32 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth: 8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 45 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 45 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-2860QM is made in 32 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 8.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 32 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: PGA 988
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 8.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date: Q4/2011
Release price: 295 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-2860QM have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


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 i5-2500 Intel Core i5-2500
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
697
Intel Core i5-2500k Intel Core i5-2500k
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
697
Intel Core i5-5287U Intel Core i5-5287U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
697
Intel Core i7-2860QM Intel Core i7-2860QM
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
696
Intel Processor N200 Intel Processor N200
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
696
Intel Core i5-3470 Intel Core i5-3470
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
682
Intel Pentium Silver N6000 Intel Pentium Silver N6000
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
675

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 i5-6500T Intel Core i5-6500T
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
2796
Intel Core i5-3570 Intel Core i5-3570
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
2780
Intel Processor N95 Intel Processor N95
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
2724
Intel Core i7-2860QM Intel Core i7-2860QM
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
2723
Intel Core i3-1115G4 Intel Core i3-1115G4
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
2696
Intel Xeon X3470 Intel Xeon X3470
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
2672
Intel Core i7-10510Y Intel Core i7-10510Y
4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
2635

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 i5-2380P Intel Core i5-2380P
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
719
Intel Core i7-4712HQ Intel Core i7-4712HQ
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
718
Intel Core i7-3610QE Intel Core i7-3610QE
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
717
Intel Core i7-2860QM Intel Core i7-2860QM
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
716
Intel Core i5-3340M Intel Core i5-3340M
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
716
Intel Core i7-3615QM Intel Core i7-3615QM
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
715
Intel Core i7-3610QM Intel Core i7-3610QM
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
715

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 i5-4590S Intel Core i5-4590S
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
2651
Intel Processor N95 Intel Processor N95
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
2649
AMD Ryzen 3 3350U AMD Ryzen 3 3350U
4C 4T @ 2.10 GHz
2645
Intel Core i7-2860QM Intel Core i7-2860QM
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
2637
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus
8C 8T @ 2.96 GHz
2632
Intel Core i5-4430 Intel Core i5-4430
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
2630
MediaTek Kompanio 820 MediaTek Kompanio 820
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
2627

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 i5-3380M Intel Core i5-3380M
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
632
Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
632
Intel Core i3-5005U Intel Core i3-5005U
2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz
630
Intel Core i7-2860QM Intel Core i7-2860QM
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
627
Intel Xeon D-1577 Intel Xeon D-1577
16C 32T @ 2.10 GHz
627
Intel Pentium G4400T Intel Pentium G4400T
2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz
626
Intel Pentium G3250 Intel Pentium G3250
2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz
624

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 i7-5550U Intel Core i7-5550U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
1941
Intel Core i5-7200U Intel Core i5-7200U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
1937
Intel Core i7-6600U Intel Core i7-6600U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1937
Intel Core i7-2860QM Intel Core i7-2860QM
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
1934
Intel Core m7-6Y75 Intel Core m7-6Y75
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1933
Intel Core i7-5500U Intel Core i7-5500U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
1933
Intel Core i5-3475S Intel Core i5-3475S
4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
1932

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 i5-2415M Intel Core i5-2415M
Intel HD Graphics 3000 @ 1.30 GHz
250
Intel Core i5-2435M Intel Core i5-2435M
Intel HD Graphics 3000 @ 1.30 GHz
250
Intel Core i5-2520M Intel Core i5-2520M
Intel HD Graphics 3000 @ 1.30 GHz
250
Intel Core i7-2860QM Intel Core i7-2860QM
Intel HD Graphics 3000 @ 1.30 GHz
250
AMD A6-5400K AMD A6-5400K
AMD Radeon HD 7540D @ 0.64 GHz
246
AMD A6-5400B AMD A6-5400B
AMD Radeon HD 7540D @ 0.64 GHz
246
HiSilicon Kirin 960S HiSilicon Kirin 960S
ARM Mali-G71 MP8 @ 0.90 GHz
245

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 i5-6442EQ Intel Core i5-6442EQ
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
4612
Intel Core i7-2920XM Intel Core i7-2920XM
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
4611
AMD Phenom II X4 980 AMD Phenom II X4 980
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
4610
Intel Core i7-2860QM Intel Core i7-2860QM
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
4592
Intel Core i7-2600S Intel Core i7-2600S
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
4582
Intel Xeon Bronze 3104 Intel Xeon Bronze 3104
6C 6T @ 1.70 GHz
4579
AMD A10-7850K AMD A10-7850K
4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
4568

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 i5-4440 Intel Core i5-4440
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
1327
Intel Core i7-930 Intel Core i7-930
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
1322
Intel Core i3-1115G4 Intel Core i3-1115G4
2C 4T @ 1.70 GHz
1320
Intel Core i7-2860QM Intel Core i7-2860QM
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
1318
Intel Core i5-2500 Intel Core i5-2500
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
1313
Intel Core i7-860 Intel Core i7-860
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
1310
Intel Processor N100 Intel Processor N100
4C 4T @ 1.80 GHz
1304

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