Intel Core i5-1155G7 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Core i5-1155G7 vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1155G7 is faster than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-1155G7 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1155G7. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-1155G7 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Core i5-1155G7 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-1155G7 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 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 i5-1155G7 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.