Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Core i5-2500 vs Xeon E5-2620 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 is faster than the Core i5-2500. 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 E5-2620 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-2500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-2500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620. 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-2500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.