Intel Core i7-3540M vs Intel Xeon L5520

Core i7-3540M vs Xeon L5520 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon L5520 is faster than the Core i7-3540M. Despite this, the Core i7-3540M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon L5520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-3540M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3540M. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon L5520. Also, the Core i7-3540M has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3540M CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon L5520 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.