Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

Compare Intel 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1839 points

2307 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3374 points

3862 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1406 points

1859 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1350 points

1784 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.86 points

54.97 points

84% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

47 W

197% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

753rd of 1,089

659th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Xeon E5-1603 v3 vs Core i7-4900MQ benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 is faster than the Core i7-4900MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4900MQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-4900MQ has more threads. The Core i7-4900MQ outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1603 v3 thanks to a 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. For instance, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.