Intel Core i7-4850HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

Core i7-4850HQ vs Xeon E5-2650 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2650 performs better than the Core i7-4850HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4850HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4850HQ. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has 8 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 E5-2650. Also, the Core i7-4850HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4850HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 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 i7-4850HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.