Intel Core i7-4980HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4

Core i7-4980HQ vs Xeon E5-1620 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4980HQ beats the Xeon E5-1620 v4 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v4 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-4980HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.