Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Core 7 150U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 7 150U performs better than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. Indeed, the Core 7 150U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-1620 v4. 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 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.