Intel Core i5-8279U vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Core i5-8279U vs Xeon E5-2620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2620 beats the Core i5-8279U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8279U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-8279U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8279U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8279U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i5-8279U has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8279U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 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. Indeed, the Core i5-8279U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.