Intel Core i7-10700F vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Core i7-10700F vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700F beats the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10700F has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Indeed, the Core i7-10700F has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2620 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Core i7-10700F has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10700F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-10700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.