Intel Core i7-4790S vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Core i7-4790S vs Xeon E5-1620 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790S beats the Xeon E5-1620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4790S. Despite this, the Core i7-4790S has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790S CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-4790S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.