Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Xeon E5-2620 vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2620 beats the Core 7 150U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2620 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a significantly higher turbo speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.