Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Core i7-4790

Xeon E5-2640 vs Core i7-4790 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790 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 i7-4790. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4790. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4790 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. The Xeon E5-2640 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.