Intel Core i7-2700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Core i7-2700K vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 beats the Core i7-2700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2700K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-2700K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Core i7-2700K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2420 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-2700K thanks to a slightly 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 i7-2700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.