Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Core i7-4702MQ

Xeon E5-2420 vs Core i7-4702MQ benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2420 performs better than the Core i7-4702MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4702MQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4702MQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4702MQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4702MQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i7-4702MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4702MQ 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.