Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs Intel Xeon E5-2630

Xeon E5-2620 vs Xeon E5-2630 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2620 beats the Xeon E5-2630 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2630 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Xeon E5-2630 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.