Intel Core i7-4720HQ vs Intel Xeon X5470

Core i7-4720HQ vs Xeon X5470 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4720HQ beats the Xeon X5470 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon X5470 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-4720HQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5470 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4720HQ. A Core i7-4720HQ 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. In terms of cache, the Xeon X5470 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4720HQ

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-4720HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.