Intel Core i7-4980HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3463 points

4813 points

38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5609 points

5729 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2826 points

4521 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2712 points

4429 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

62.88 points

68.37 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3525 points

3758 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1103 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

741 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3854 points

4183 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1122 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3.5 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W

187% significantly lower TDP

135 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

489th of 1,089

366th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-4980HQ vs Xeon E5-2637 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4980HQ beats the Xeon E5-2637 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2637 v4 in all gaming tests too.

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 E5-2637 v4 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 E5-2637 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-4980HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.