Intel Core i7-4980HQ vs Intel Xeon Silver 4110

Core i7-4980HQ vs Xeon Silver 4110 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Silver 4110 performs better than the Core i7-4980HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4980HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Silver 4110 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-4980HQ has 4 cores. 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 Silver 4110. Also, the Core i7-4980HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4980HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Silver 4110 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.