Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Core i7-2630QM

Xeon W3580 vs Core i7-2630QM specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W3580 is faster than the Core i7-2630QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2630QM in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W3580 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2630QM. Also, the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-2630QM outputs less heat than Xeon W3580 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 W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.