Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Core Ultra 7 255H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 7 255H 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 Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255H has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-1620 v4. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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