Intel Core i5-4210H vs Intel Xeon W3520

Core i5-4210H vs Xeon W3520 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon W3520 performs better than the Core i5-4210H. Despite this, the Core i5-4210H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-4210H that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-4210H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3520. Also, the Core i5-4210H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-4210H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3520 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 i5-4210H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.