Intel Xeon E5-430 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.95
$ 70.05 significantly less expensive
$ 200.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2250 points
2307 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3133 points
3862 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1956 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
1859 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1887 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
1784 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.25 points
54.97 points
493% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1179 points
2842 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

376 points
933 points
148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1041 points
3402 points
226% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

356 points
1123 points
215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz
2.80 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W
47 W
70% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
1100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

673rd of 1,089
659th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Xeon E5-430 vs Core i7-4900MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4900MQ is faster than the Xeon E5-430. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-430 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4900MQ has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4900MQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-430. The Core i7-4900MQ outputs less heat than Xeon E5-430 thanks to a significantly 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 E5-430 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4900MQ

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Xeon E5-430 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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