Intel Core i7-3820 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Core i7-3820 vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3820 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 i7-3820 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3820. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-3820 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Core i7-3820 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2420 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-3820 thanks to a 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 i7-3820 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.