Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs Intel Core 5 210H

Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs Core 5 210H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 beats the Core 5 210H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 5 210H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core 5 210H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 5 210H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 210H. Despite this, the Core 5 210H has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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 E5-2470 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.