Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Core i7-4810MQ

Xeon E5-2420 vs Core i7-4810MQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 beats the Core i7-4810MQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4810MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4810MQ. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 3 cores found in the Core i7-4810MQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4810MQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4810MQ has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i7-4810MQ has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4810MQ 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.

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 E5-2420 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.