Intel Core i7-4710HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Core i7-4710HQ vs Xeon E5-1620 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 beats the Core i7-4710HQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4710HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 E5-1620 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4710HQ. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4710HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-4710HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.