Intel Core i7-930 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Core i7-930 vs Xeon E5-2420 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2420 performs better than the Core i7-930. Despite this, the Core i7-930 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-930. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-930. It also has more threads than the Core i7-930. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-930 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i7-930 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2420 outputs less heat than Core i7-930 thanks to a slightly 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 i7-930 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.