Intel Core i7-960 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Core i7-960 vs Xeon E5-2620 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 is faster than the Core i7-960. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-960 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-960. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-960. It also has more threads than the Core i7-960. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-960 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2620 outputs less heat than Core i7-960 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 i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.