Intel Core i5-2400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Intel Xeon E5-2420

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 60.50

$ 295.05 significantly less expensive

$ 355.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1911 points

2140 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3500 points

17% slightly better gaming score

2978 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1462 points

1875 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1403 points

1814 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Core i5-2400 and the Xeon E5-2420? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.55 points

36.28 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1612 points

2643 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

550 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

453 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1606 points

1814 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

551 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

378 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

63% significantly higher clock speed

1.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

41% slightly higher turbo speed

2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

49% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

384 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

737th of 1,089

697th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-2400 vs Xeon E5-2420 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2420 performs better than the Core i5-2400. Despite this, the Core i5-2400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-2400 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i5-2400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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. For instance, the Core i5-2400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.