Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Core i7-9850HL

Xeon E5-2420 vs Core i7-9850HL benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 is faster than the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2420 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9850HL outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2420 thanks to a significantly 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.