Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Core i7-4930MX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 performs better than the Core i7-4930MX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4930MX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-4930MX has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4930MX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4930MX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Core i7-4930MX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4930MX outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 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 E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.