Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Core i7-3770 vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3770 beats the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-3770 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Core i7-3770 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 v2 CPU because of its 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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.