Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Core i7-8550U vs Xeon E5-620 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the Core i7-8550U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-620 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Core i7-8550U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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