Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Xeon E5-2420 vs Xeon E5-2609 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 beats the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2420 has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Xeon E5-2420 and Xeon E5-2609 v3 are identical in this regard. The Xeon E5-2609 v3 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2420 thanks to a slightly 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 E5-2420 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.