Intel Core i7-4980HQ vs Intel Xeon E-2176M

Core i7-4980HQ vs Xeon E-2176M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E-2176M is faster than the Core i7-4980HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4980HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E-2176M has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4980HQ. Indeed, the Xeon E-2176M has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4980HQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4980HQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4980HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E-2176M. Despite this, the Xeon E-2176M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E-2176M outputs less heat than Core i7-4980HQ thanks to a slightly 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 i7-4980HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.