Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Pentium Gold G7400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 beats the Pentium Gold G7400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G7400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G7400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G7400. Both the Xeon E5-1620 v2 and Pentium Gold G7400 have the same clock speed.

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.