Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Core i5-2500 vs Xeon E5-2420 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 beats the Core i5-2500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-2500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-2500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-2500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i5-2500 has a significantly 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 i5-2500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.