Intel Core i7-3820 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Core i7-3820 vs Xeon E5-2620 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2620 beats the Core i7-3820 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3820 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2620 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3820 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i7-3820 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2620 outputs less heat than Core i7-3820 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 i7-3820 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.