Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon E5-2620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2620 beats the Core i7-4790 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4790 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4790 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 CPU because of its slightly 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.