Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Core i3-1220P specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-1220P is faster than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Indeed, the Core i3-1220P has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2420 v2. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1220P outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2420 v2 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 E5-2420 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.