Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2

Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Xeon E5-2470 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 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 Xeon E5-2470 v2 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2420 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2420 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2470 v2 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2420 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.