Intel Core i7-4712MQ vs Intel Xeon X5470

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 768.00
$ 292.42
$ 475.58 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1744 points
1760 points
0.92% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2886 points
3238 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1409 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
1344 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1352 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
1290 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz
3.34 GHz
45% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

37 W
224% significantly lower TDP
120 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
12 MiB
4700% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

767th of 1,089
765th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-4712MQ vs Xeon X5470 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5470 beats the Core i7-4712MQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4712MQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4712MQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5470 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. A Core i7-4712MQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5470 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon X5470 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4712MQ

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

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