Intel Core i7-4980HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Core i7-4980HQ vs Xeon E5-1620 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4980HQ performs better than the Xeon E5-1620 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4980HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4980HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4980HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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.