Intel Core i7-4870HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Core i7-4870HQ vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4870HQ performs better than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1240 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4870HQ.

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 i7-4870HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.