Intel Core i7-8650U vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Core i7-8650U vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 is faster than the Core i7-8650U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8650U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8650U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8650U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8650U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8650U. Despite this, the Core i7-8650U has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8650U 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.

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 i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.