Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Core i7-3612QM

Xeon W3580 vs Core i7-3612QM comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3612QM performs better than the Xeon W3580. Despite this, the Xeon W3580 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3612QM. Also, the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3612QM 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.

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 W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.