Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4930MX

Price

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$ 60.25

$ 238.76 significantly less expensive

$ 299.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2495 points

1% slightly better overall score

2463 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3457 points

4049 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2187 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

2003 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2116 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

1926 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.84 points

50.02 points

67% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3177 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3101 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

517 points

873 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2144 points

3648 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

440 points

1251 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

3.20 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.7 GHz

3.9 GHz

44% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

57 W

40% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

49% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

628th of 1,089

636th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Core i7-4930MX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 is faster than the Core i7-4930MX. Despite this, the Core i7-4930MX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4930MX has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4930MX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4930MX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Core i7-4930MX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4930MX outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2420 v2 thanks to a slightly 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.