Intel Core i7-4910MQ vs Intel Xeon E5-649

Core i7-4910MQ vs Xeon E5-649 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4910MQ beats the Xeon E5-649 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-649 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-649 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4910MQ has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4910MQ has more threads than the Xeon E5-649. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4910MQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-649. Also, the Core i7-4910MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4910MQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-649 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-649 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4910MQ. The Xeon E5-649 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-4910MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.