Intel Xeon E5-1620 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Xeon E5-1620 vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 5 120U beats the Xeon E5-1620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1620. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-1620. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U.

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