Intel Core i7-4980HQ Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i7-4980HQ is a 4 core processor. It can handle 8 threads simultaneously and was introduced in Q3/2014. The Intel Core i7-4980HQ is based on the 4. generation of the Intel Core i7 series and requires a mainboard with the socket BGA 1364. The Intel Core i7-4980HQ scores 943 points with one CPU core in the Geekbench 5 benchmark. When using all CPU cores, the result is 3,561 points.
Intel Core i7-4980HQ

CPU lineage

Here you can see which group the Intel Core i7-4980HQ belongs to and which processor is the predecessor of the Intel Core i7-4980HQ.

Name: Intel Core i7-4980HQ
Family: Intel Core i7 (293)
CPU group: Intel Core i 4000M/4000H (38)
Architecture: Haswell H
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 4
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The 4 CPU cores of the Intel Core i7-4980HQ clock with 2.80 GHz (4.00 GHz). The number of CPU cores and the clock frequency of the processor are largely responsible for the overall performance.

CPU Cores / Threads: 4 / 8
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 4x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 2.80 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 4.00 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores): --

Internal Graphics

With the Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200, the Intel Core i7-4980HQ has an build in graphic solution. It has 40 SM processors, which have a total of 320 texture shaders. The iGPU not only enables games, but also significantly accelerates video playback.

GPU name: Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200
GPU frequency: 0.20 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.30 GHz
Compute units: 40
Shader: 320
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q2/2013
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 7.5
Direct X: 11.1
Technology: 22 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 2 GB
Frame Generation: No

Hardware codec support

Processors that have an integrated graphics can play videos faster and more efficiently. This can have a positive effect on the battery life of notebooks, for example.

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: Decode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Core i7-4980HQ supports up to 32 GB memory in up to 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum memory bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR3L-1333
DDR3L-1600
21.3 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory: 32 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth: 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

With the TDP, the processor manufacturer specifies the cooling solution required for the processor. The Intel Core i7-4980HQ has a TDP of 47 W.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 47 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-4980HQ has a 6.00 MB large cache. The processor is manufactured in 22 nm. Modern production increases the efficiency of the processor.

Technology: 22 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: BGA 1364
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 6.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date: Q3/2014
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-4980HQ 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.


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 i5-7287U Intel Core i5-7287U
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
945
Intel Core i7-4790S Intel Core i7-4790S
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
945
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 AMD Ryzen 7 2700
8C 16T @ 4.10 GHz
944
Intel Core i7-4980HQ Intel Core i7-4980HQ
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
943
MediaTek Dimensity 8100 MediaTek Dimensity 8100
8C 8T @ 2.85 GHz
941
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
941
Intel Pentium Gold G6400E Intel Pentium Gold G6400E
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
940

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 i3-9320 Intel Core i3-9320
4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
3563
Intel Core i7-6770HQ Intel Core i7-6770HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
3563
Intel Core i7-10510U Intel Core i7-10510U
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
3562
Intel Core i7-4980HQ Intel Core i7-4980HQ
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
3561
Intel Core i7-7820EQ Intel Core i7-7820EQ
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
3561
Intel Core i5-5675C Intel Core i5-5675C
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
3551
Intel Core i7-7820HQ Intel Core i7-7820HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
3547

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 i7-5700HQ Intel Core i7-5700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
1110
Intel Core i3-4160 Intel Core i3-4160
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1108
Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1108
Intel Core i7-4980HQ Intel Core i7-4980HQ
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
1107
Intel Core i7-6567U Intel Core i7-6567U
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1107
Intel Core i5-6287U Intel Core i5-6287U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1106
Intel Core i5-6440HQ Intel Core i5-6440HQ
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1106

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 i5-9300H Intel Core i5-9300H
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
3867
Intel Core i5-4690K Intel Core i5-4690K
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
3864
Intel Core i5-8305G Intel Core i5-8305G
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
3861
Intel Core i7-4980HQ Intel Core i7-4980HQ
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
3846
Intel Core i5-1035G7 Intel Core i5-1035G7
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
3842
Intel Core i7-4900MQ Intel Core i7-4900MQ
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
3839
Intel Core i7-4960HQ Intel Core i7-4960HQ
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
3827

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 Celeron 7305 Intel Celeron 7305
Intel UHD Graphics 12th Gen (48 EU) @ 1.10 GHz
844
Intel Pentium Gold 8505 Intel Pentium Gold 8505
Intel UHD Graphics 12th Gen (48 EU) @ 1.10 GHz
844
Intel Core i3-1210U Intel Core i3-1210U
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake) @ 0.85 GHz
843
Intel Core i7-4980HQ Intel Core i7-4980HQ
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 @ 1.30 GHz
832
Intel Core i7-4960HQ Intel Core i7-4960HQ
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 @ 1.30 GHz
832
Intel Core i7-4950HQ Intel Core i7-4950HQ
Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 @ 1.30 GHz
832
Intel Core i7-14700T Intel Core i7-14700T
Intel UHD Graphics 770 @ 1.60 GHz
820

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.
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
4C 4T @ 3.65 GHz
6781
AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200G AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200G
4C 4T @ 3.65 GHz
6781
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
6777
Intel Core i7-4980HQ Intel Core i7-4980HQ
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
6751
MediaTek Dimensity 8100 MediaTek Dimensity 8100
8C 8T @ 2.85 GHz
6735
Intel Core i7-4960HQ Intel Core i7-4960HQ
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
6732
Intel Core i7-10510U Intel Core i7-10510U
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
6722

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 Xeon E3-1230 v3 Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
1899
Intel Core i5-10210U Intel Core i5-10210U
4C 8T @ 1.60 GHz
1894
Intel Core i7-4770S Intel Core i7-4770S
4C 8T @ 3.10 GHz
1886
Intel Core i7-4980HQ Intel Core i7-4980HQ
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
1883
Intel Core i7-1065G7 Intel Core i7-1065G7
4C 8T @ 1.30 GHz
1881
Intel Core i7-8565U Intel Core i7-8565U
4C 8T @ 1.80 GHz
1878
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
4C 8T @ 2.10 GHz
1869

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 i7-5775R Intel Core i7-5775R
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
154
Intel Core i7-6700T Intel Core i7-6700T
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
154
Intel Xeon E5-2687W v2 Intel Xeon E5-2687W v2
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
154
Intel Core i7-4980HQ Intel Core i7-4980HQ
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
153
Intel Core i3-8109U Intel Core i3-8109U
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
153
Intel Core i5-7360U Intel Core i5-7360U
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
153
Intel Core i7-6567U Intel Core i7-6567U
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
153

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.
AMD Ryzen 7 3700U AMD Ryzen 7 3700U
4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz
701
AMD FX-9370 AMD FX-9370
8C 8T @ 4.70 GHz
699
Intel Core i5-8400T Intel Core i5-8400T
6C 6T @ 2.80 GHz
696
Intel Core i7-4980HQ Intel Core i7-4980HQ
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
695
Intel Core i7-6820HK Intel Core i7-6820HK
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
694
Intel Core i7-6820HQ Intel Core i7-6820HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
694
Intel Core i7-6770HQ Intel Core i7-6770HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
692

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