Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E5-2665

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon E5-2665 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790 is faster than the Xeon E5-2665. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2665 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2665 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-4790 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2665. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2665 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.