Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4

Price

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$ 98.75

$ 105.60 significantly less expensive

$ 204.35

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2865 points

3% slightly better overall score

2777 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4309 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

2303 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

2209 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points

65.44 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3751 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3009 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

883 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points

4033 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1125 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.60 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

66% significantly lower TDP

140 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

558th of 1,089

576th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon E5-1620 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790 is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v4 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.