Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Core i5-8500 vs Xeon E5-1620 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8500 is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8500 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Indeed, the Core i5-8500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads than the Core i5-8500. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8500 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.

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 i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.