Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Core i7-4700MQ

Xeon E5-2420 vs Core i7-4700MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 is faster than the Core i7-4700MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4700MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4700MQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4700MQ. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4700MQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i7-4700MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4700MQ outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2420 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.