Intel Core i7-4600M vs Intel Xeon X5450

Core i7-4600M vs Xeon X5450 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5450 performs better 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 X5450 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4600M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5450 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4600M. A Core i7-4600M CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5450 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 i7-4600M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.