Intel Core i5-6300U vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Core i5-6300U vs Xeon E5-2420 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 is faster than the Core i5-6300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-6300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6300U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i5-6300U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6300U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 CPU because of its significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i5-6300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.