Intel Core i7-3740QM vs Intel Xeon X5670

Core i7-3740QM vs Xeon X5670 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3740QM beats the Xeon X5670 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5670 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5670 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3740QM. Indeed, the Xeon X5670 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3740QM. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3740QM. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5670 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3740QM. Despite this, the Core i7-3740QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3740QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5670 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-3740QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.