Intel Core i7-3820 vs Intel Xeon E5-2670

Core i7-3820 vs Xeon E5-2670 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2670 is faster than the Core i7-3820. Despite this, the Core i7-3820 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2670 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3820. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3820. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3820. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3820 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670. Also, the Core i7-3820 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2670 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3820 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.