Intel Core i7-7700HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2

Core i7-7700HQ vs Xeon E3-1245 V2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1245 V2 performs better than the Core i7-7700HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700HQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1245 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7700HQ.

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 i7-7700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.