Intel Core i7-4700HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 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

2361 points

3% slightly better overall score

2291 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3542 points

20% slightly better gaming score

2929 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2007 points

2085 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1927 points

2031 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.43 points

91% significantly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3055 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1482 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

366 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

2.53 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W

70% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

288 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

649th of 1,089

662nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-4700HQ vs Xeon E5-620 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4700HQ performs better than the Xeon E5-620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-620 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4700HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4700HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4700HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-620 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 i7-4700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.