Intel Core i5-4670 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Core i5-4670 vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 beats the Core i5-4670 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4670 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-4670 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4670. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-4670 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Core i5-4670 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2420 v2 outputs less heat than Core i5-4670 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-4670 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.