Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Core i7-2670QM

Xeon W3580 vs Core i7-2670QM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3580 beats the Core i7-2670QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2670QM in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W3580 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2670QM. Also, the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-2670QM 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.