Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Xeon E5-1650 v2 vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1650 v2 beats the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 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 E5-1650 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2620 v3 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-1650 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.