Intel Core i7-3720QM vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Core i7-3720QM vs Xeon E5-2420 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 beats the Core i7-3720QM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3720QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3720QM. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3720QM. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3720QM. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3720QM has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i7-3720QM has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3720QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 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 i7-3720QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.