Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Intel Core i7-4710MQ

Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Core i7-4710MQ specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 performs better than the Core i7-4710MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4710MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4710MQ. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4710MQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4710MQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4710MQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Core i7-4710MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4710MQ outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2420 v2 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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.