Intel Core i7-2820QM vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Core i7-2820QM vs Xeon E5-1620 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 beats the Core i7-2820QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2820QM in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2820QM. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-2820QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-2820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.