Intel Core i7-2700K vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Core i7-2700K vs Xeon E5-620 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the Core i7-2700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-2700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Core i7-2700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Core i7-2700K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 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.