Intel Core i7-4850HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-2670

Core i7-4850HQ vs Xeon E5-2670 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2670 beats the Core i7-4850HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4850HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2670 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-4850HQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4850HQ. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2670 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4850HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4850HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4850HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.