Intel Core i5-8300H vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Core i5-8300H vs Xeon E5-2620 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2620 beats the Core i5-8300H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8300H 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 i5-8300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8300H. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8300H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i5-8300H has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8300H 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.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-8300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.