Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2140 points
2198 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2978 points
3% slightly better gaming score
2867 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1875 points
1984 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1814 points
1931 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.28 points
40% slightly higher Blender score
25.76 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1482 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

378 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
366 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz
2.53 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.4 GHz
2.66 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
80 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
Identical
3

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory
288 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

704th of 1,100
690th of 1,100

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

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