Intel Core i7-4600M vs Intel Xeon X5450

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1394 points
1492 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2774 points
1% slightly better gaming score
2733 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1034 points
1143 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

992 points
1098 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1735 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1348 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

961 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
426 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1926 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1123 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1013 points
160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
389 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3.00 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

37 W
224% significantly lower TDP
120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

841st of 1,089
810th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November
2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-4600M vs Xeon X5450 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4600M performs better than the Xeon X5450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5450 in all gaming tests too.

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.

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