Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1620 v4 performs better than the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1620 v4 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U.

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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.