Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

Xeon W3580 vs Core i7-4900MQ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4900MQ beats the Xeon W3580 in overall performance. 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4900MQ 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.