Intel Core i7-4712MQ vs Intel Xeon E5-520

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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Intel Xeon E5-520

Price

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$ 768.00

$ 24.60

$ 743.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1744 points

4% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2886 points

16% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1409 points

1418 points

0.64% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1352 points

1363 points

0.81% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.27 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2448 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1691 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

953 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2892 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

948 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

37 W

116% 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

144 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB

1 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

767th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2009 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 i7-4712MQ vs Xeon E5-520 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-520 is faster than the Core i7-4712MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4712MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4712MQ has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4712MQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i7-4712MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4712MQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. The Xeon E5-520 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i7-4712MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.