Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2620

Price

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$ 355.55

$ 207.15

$ 148.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2140 points

2694 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2978 points

3212 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1875 points

2534 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1814 points

2503 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.28 points

38.93 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2643 points

2793 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

459 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

1902 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

378 points

390 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

2 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.4 GHz

2.5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

66% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

Identical

384 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

697th of 1,089

591st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2420 vs Xeon E5-2620 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 is faster than the Xeon E5-2420. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Xeon E5-2620 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.