Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Xeon L5520

Core i7-920 vs Xeon L5520 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-920 is faster than the Xeon L5520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon L5520 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-920 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon L5520. Also, the Core i7-920 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon L5520 outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-920 has more L2 cache than the Xeon L5520

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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.