Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Xeon E5-2650 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2650 performs better than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1620 v2 that 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 E5-2650. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2650 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 v2 thanks to a slightly 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.