Intel Core i7-7820HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Core i7-7820HQ vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 is faster than the Core i7-7820HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7820HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7820HQ.

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 i7-7820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.