Intel Core i7-4600M vs Intel Xeon E5-440

Core i7-4600M vs Xeon E5-440 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-440 beats the Core i7-4600M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4600M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-440 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4600M. Indeed, the Xeon E5-440 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-4600M. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4600M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-440. A Core i7-4600M CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-440 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 i7-4600M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.