Intel Core i7-3540M vs Intel Xeon E5-450

Core i7-3540M vs Xeon E5-450 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-450 is faster than the Core i7-3540M. Despite this, the Core i7-3540M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-450 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3540M. Indeed, the Xeon E5-450 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-3540M. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3540M.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3540M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.