Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Core 7 150U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 beats the Core 7 150U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 150U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a significantly higher turbo speed.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.