Intel Core i7-3820 vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

Core i7-3820 vs Xeon E5-2667 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 is faster than the Core i7-3820. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3820 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2667 v2 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3820 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2667 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.