Intel Core i7-975 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1889 points
2694 points
42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3014 points
3212 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1556 points
2534 points
62% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1494 points
2503 points
67% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2411 points
2793 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

596 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
459 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1859 points
1902 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
390 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.33 GHz
66% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
44% significantly higher turbo speed
2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
95 W
36% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
4
33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB
384 GiB
1500% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

742nd of 1,089
591st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 May
2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-975 vs Xeon E5-2620 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 is faster than the Core i7-975. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-975 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 i7-975. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-975. It also has more threads than the Core i7-975. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-975 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i7-975 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2620 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.

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