Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Core i7-4720HQ

Xeon W3580 vs Core i7-4720HQ specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4720HQ performs better than the Xeon W3580. Despite this, the Xeon W3580 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4720HQ. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-4720HQ 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon W3580 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.