Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Xeon X5570

Xeon E5-2420 vs Xeon X5570 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5570 performs better than the Xeon E5-2420. 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 X5570. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon X5570. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5570. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5570 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Xeon X5570 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.