Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

Xeon E5-2420 vs Core i7-4900MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 is faster than the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ 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 i7-4900MQ. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4900MQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4900MQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4900MQ has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i7-4900MQ has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4900MQ 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.