Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Core i7-8550U vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 is faster than the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8550U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8550U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8550U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.