Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Core i7-5700HQ

Xeon E5-2640 vs Core i7-5700HQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 beats the Core i7-5700HQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5700HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-5700HQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5700HQ. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Core i7-5700HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5700HQ outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2640 thanks to a significantly 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 i7-5700HQ. 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.