Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Core i7-2600 vs Xeon E5-1620 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 is faster than the Core i7-2600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2600. Despite this, the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v3 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 i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.