Intel Xeon E5-1620 vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Xeon E5-1620 vs Core i3-1220P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 is faster than the Core i3-1220P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1220P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1620 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P.

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