Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Xeon E5-2620 vs Core i7 X 980 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 X 980 beats the Xeon E5-2620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7 X 980 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620.

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.