Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 is faster than the Core i7-4790. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4790. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4790. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v2 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.