Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2694 points
4342 points
61% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3212 points
7190 points
123% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2534 points
3534 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2503 points
3381 points
35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.93 points
85.75 points
120% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points
7114 points
274% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

390 points
2111 points
441% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
42% much higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
100% significantly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
96 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

591st of 1,089
407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2620 vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2620 performs better than the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U.

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 E5-2620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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