Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Core i7-4770

Xeon E5-2640 vs Core i7-4770 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4770 is faster than the Xeon E5-2640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4770. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4770. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4770 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Core i7-4770 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4770 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2640 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4770. The Xeon E5-2640 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 E5-2640 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.