Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Core i9-8950HK vs Xeon E5-1620 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-8950HK performs better than the Xeon E5-1620. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1620. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-1620. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-8950HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.