Intel Core i7-975 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Core i7-975 vs Xeon E5-2420 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 beats the Core i7-975 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-975 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-975 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-975. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-975 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i7-975 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2420 outputs less heat than Core i7-975 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 i7-975 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.