Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Core i7-4900MQ comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4900MQ is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4900MQ. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4900MQ outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 v2 thanks to a 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 Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.