Intel Xeon E5-1620 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Xeon E5-1620 vs Xeon E5-620 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-620 performs better than the Xeon E5-1620. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 has a much higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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