Intel Core i7-4720HQ vs Intel Xeon X5687

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1830 points

1892 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2931 points

3477 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1511 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1446 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1452 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1388 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.95 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

42.49 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

2.59 GHz

3.59 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.86 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W

176% significantly lower TDP

130 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

288 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

12 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

754th of 1,089

740th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2011 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 i7-4720HQ vs Xeon X5687 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5687 performs better than the Core i7-4720HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4720HQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4720HQ has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4720HQ. Also, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4720HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5687 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Xeon X5687 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.