Intel Core i5-7400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2420

Price

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$ 59.00

$ 296.55 significantly less expensive

$ 355.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2237 points

4% slightly better overall score

2140 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4164 points

39% slightly better gaming score

2978 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1701 points

1875 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1632 points

1814 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.28 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

36.28 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3137 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2643 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

453 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3282 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1814 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1193 points

215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

378 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

1.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

45% significantly higher turbo speed

2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

49% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

384 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

675th of 1,089

697th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-7400 vs Xeon E5-2420 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7400 is faster than the Xeon E5-2420. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 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 i5-7400 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i5-7400 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7400 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. For instance, the Core i5-7400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.