Intel Core i7-4850HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Core i7-4850HQ vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4850HQ beats the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 E3-1230 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4850HQ.

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 i7-4850HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.