Intel Core i7-4850HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Core i7-4850HQ vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4850HQ performs better than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4850HQ. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4850HQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4850HQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4850HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Core i7-4850HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4850HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 v2 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 i7-4850HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.