Intel Core i7-870 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Core i7-870 vs Xeon E5-520 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-520 is faster than the Core i7-870. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-870 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-870 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-520 outputs less heat than Core i7-870 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.