Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6140

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon Gold 6140 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790 beats the Xeon Gold 6140 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6140 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6140 has significantly more cores with 18 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 Gold 6140. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6140 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon Gold 6140 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. The Xeon Gold 6140 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.