Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Intel Core i7-4712MQ

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4712MQ

Price

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$ 198.95

$ 569.05 significantly less expensive

$ 768.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1767 points

1% slightly better overall score

1744 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2784 points

2886 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1446 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1409 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1388 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1352 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2526 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2448 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

953 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2743 points

2892 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

617 points

948 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

2.30 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

37 W

116% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

2299% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

763rd of 1,089

767th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Core i7-4712MQ benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 performs better than the Core i7-4712MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4712MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-4712MQ that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4712MQ has more threads than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4712MQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. The Core i7-4712MQ outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2609 v3 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. For instance, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.