Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Intel Core i5-6402P

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Core i5-6402P specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 is faster than the Core i5-6402P. Despite this, the Core i5-6402P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6402P. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6402P outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.