Intel Core i7-3540M vs Intel Xeon E5-440

Core i7-3540M vs Xeon E5-440 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-440 performs better than the Core i7-3540M. Despite this, the Core i7-3540M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-440 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-3540M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-440. A Core i7-3540M CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-440 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-3540M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.