Intel Core i7-4600M vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

Core i7-4600M vs Xeon E5-1603 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1603 is faster than the Core i7-4600M. Despite this, the Core i7-4600M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1603 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4600M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A Core i7-4600M CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 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 i7-4600M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.