Intel Core i7-5500U vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Core i7-5500U vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 beats the Core i7-5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-5500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Core i7-5500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.