Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5470

Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Xeon X5470 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 beats the Xeon X5470 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5470 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5470. The Xeon X5470 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 v3 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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.