Intel Core i7-3820 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

Core i7-3820 vs Xeon E5-2650 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 is faster than the Core i7-3820. Despite this, the Core i7-3820 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-3820 that 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 E5-2650. Also, the Core i7-3820 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2650 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.