Intel Core i7-7500U vs Intel Xeon X5450

Core i7-7500U vs Xeon X5450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5450 beats the Core i7-7500U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5450 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-7500U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7500U. A Core i7-7500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5450 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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.