Intel Core i7-870 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Core i7-870 vs Xeon E5-620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-870 beats the Xeon E5-620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-620 in all gaming tests too.

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 Core i7-870 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 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.

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