Intel Core i7-4790S vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Core i7-4790S vs Xeon E5-620 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790S beats the Xeon E5-620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-620 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4790S has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Core i7-4790S has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790S CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-620 CPU because of its slightly 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.