Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

Core i7-2600 vs Xeon E5-2650 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2650 performs better than the Core i7-2600. Despite this, the Core i7-2600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-2600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-2600. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650. Also, the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.