Intel Core i7-4870HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

Core i7-4870HQ vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4870HQ is faster than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4870HQ.

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