Intel Core i7-5500U vs Intel Xeon W3520

Core i7-5500U vs Xeon W3520 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W3520 is faster than the Core i7-5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-5500U. Indeed, the Xeon W3520 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-5500U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W3520 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5500U. Despite this, the Core i7-5500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3520 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon W3520 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-5500U. The Xeon W3520 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.