Intel Core i7-8665U vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2271 points
2291 points
0.88% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3777 points
28% slightly better gaming score
2929 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1836 points
2085 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1758 points
2031 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.82 points
77% significantly higher Blender score
25.76 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz
2.53 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
80% significantly higher turbo speed
2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
433% significantly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
288 GiB
350% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

669th of 1,089
662nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-8665U vs Xeon E5-620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the Core i7-8665U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8665U 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.

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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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