Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 beats the Xeon E5-1620 v2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2420 v2 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.