Intel Core i5-7500 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Price

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$ 73.80

$ 30.00

$ 43.80 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2458 points

7% slightly better overall score

2286 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4565 points

26% slightly better gaming score

3603 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1872 points

1895 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1797 points

1822 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.70 points

49.31 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3409 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2305 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1243 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

633 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3533 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2380 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1283 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

645 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

3.7 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

256 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

637th of 1,089

665th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2013 August

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 i5-7500 vs Xeon E5-1620 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7500 beats the Xeon E5-1620 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7500. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v2 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. For instance, the Core i5-7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.