Intel Core i7-4790S vs Intel Xeon E5-1650

Core i7-4790S vs Xeon E5-1650 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1650 beats the Core i7-4790S in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790S in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4790S has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790S. Both the Core i7-4790S and Xeon E5-1650 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-4790S has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790S CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1650 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-4790S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.