Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Xeon E5-430

Xeon E5-2420 vs Xeon E5-430 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-430 beats the Xeon E5-2420 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-430. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-430. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-430. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-430 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. The Xeon E5-430 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.

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.