Intel Core i7-7500U vs Intel Xeon W3580

Core i7-7500U vs Xeon W3580 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon W3580 performs better than the Core i7-7500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon W3580 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7500U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7500U. Also, the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3580 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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.