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

Core i7-4700MQ vs Xeon E5-620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the Core i7-4700MQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4700MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4700MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4700MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4700MQ 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-4700MQ also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-4700MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.