Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Core i7-3940XM comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 beats the Core i7-3940XM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3940XM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-3940XM that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3940XM. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3940XM has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v2. Also, the Core i7-3940XM has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3940XM outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2630 v2 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 E5-2630 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.