Intel Core i7-8650U vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Core i7-8650U vs Xeon E5-520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8650U beats the Xeon E5-520 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-8650U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-520 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 E5-520 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.