Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2573 points

36% slightly better overall score

1884 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4077 points

54% significantly better gaming score

2639 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2123 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

1648 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2042 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

1596 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1482 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

366 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

42% much higher turbo speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

288 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

634th of 1,118

765th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-2600 vs Xeon E5-620 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2600 performs better than the Xeon E5-620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-620 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Core i7-2600 has a much higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 outputs less heat than Core i7-2600 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.