Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon E5-1620 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790 is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1620 v3. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.