Intel Core i7-4710HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-430

Core i7-4710HQ vs Xeon E5-430 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-430 beats the Core i7-4710HQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4710HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-4710HQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-430 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4710HQ. A Core i7-4710HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-430 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 i7-4710HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.