Intel Core i7-3820 vs Intel Xeon E5-2630

Core i7-3820 vs Xeon E5-2630 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3820 beats the Xeon E5-2630 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 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 E5-2630. Also, the Core i7-3820 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-3820 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.