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. A Core i7-3540M CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-450 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.