Intel Core i7-8700T vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Core i7-8700T vs Xeon E5-1620 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700T beats the Xeon E5-1620 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1620 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8700T. Despite this, the Core i7-8700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-8700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.