Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs AMD Custom 0405

Xeon E5-2620 vs Custom 0405 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Custom 0405 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Custom 0405 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Custom 0405. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Custom 0405 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620.

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.