Intel Core i7-11850H vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Core i7-11850H vs Xeon E5-1620 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11850H beats the Xeon E5-1620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11850H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1620 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11850H. Despite this, the Core i7-11850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-11850H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 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 i7-11850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.