Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Core i5-7300HQ vs Xeon E5-620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7300HQ beats the Xeon E5-620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-620 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-620 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300HQ. Despite this, the Core i5-7300HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-620 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-7300HQ has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Core i5-7300HQ also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-7300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.