Intel Core i5-11400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2

Core i5-11400 vs Xeon E5-2470 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 performs better than the Core i5-11400. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11400. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2470 v2. Also, the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2470 v2 CPU because of its 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 Core i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.