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. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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.

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.