Intel Core i7-4720HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1830 points
1884 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2931 points
11% slightly better gaming score
2639 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1511 points
1648 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1452 points
1596 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.95 points
82% significantly higher Blender score
25.76 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3071 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1482 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1035 points
182% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
366 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.59 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed
2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W
70% significantly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
288 GiB
800% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
51100% significantly more L3 cache
0.01 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

764th of 1,102
754th of 1,102

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
2010 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

No
Yes

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