Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E5-2670

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon E5-2670 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790 is faster than the Xeon E5-2670. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 CPU because of its slightly 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.