| Attribute |
Intel Xeon E3-1545M v5 × | 
Intel Core i7-4940MX × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | Intel |
| Series | Intel Xeon E3 | Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition |
| Model | Intel Xeon E3-1545M v5 | Intel Core i7-4940MX |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 2.9 | 3.1 |
| CPU Threads | 8 | 8 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | + | + |
| Overclocking | - | + |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| Encryption | | |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| Hardware codec support | | |
| JPEG | Decode / Encode | Decode |
| h264 | Decode / Encode | Decode / Encode |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | Decode / Encode | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | Decode | No |
| VP8 | Decode / Encode | No |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | Decode | Decode |
| VP9 | Decode | No |
| AVC | Decode / Encode | Decode / Encode |
| Internal Graphics | | |
| GPU name | Intel Iris Pro Graphics P580 | Intel HD Graphics 4600 |
| GPU frequency (GHz) | 0.35 | 0.4 |
| GPU (Turbo) (GHz) | 1.05 | 1.35 |
| Generation | 9 | 7 |
| DirectX Version | 12 | 11.1 |
| Execution units | 72 | 20 |
| Shader | 576 | 160 |
| Max. GPU Memory (GB) | 64 | 2 |
| Max. displays | 3 | 3 |
| GPU Release date (year) | 2015 | 2013 |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMDDR4-2133LPDDR3-1866 | DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM |
| Max. Memory (GB) | 64 | - |
| PCIe lanes | 16 | 16 |
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| ECC | + | - |
| Memory channels | 2 | 4 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2016 | 2013 |
| Technology (Nm) | 14 | 22 |
| Socket | BGA 1440 | PGA 946 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 8 | 8 |
| Architecture | Skylake | Haswell |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| Temp junction max (°C) | 100 | - |
| TDP down (W) | 35 | - |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 45 | 57 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) | 1,210 | 432 |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 10,289 | 10,025 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 943 | 969 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 3,796 | 3,538 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | - | 1.74 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | - | 6.72 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 3,893 | 4,260 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 13,896 | 12,401 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL) | - | 29.8 |