Intel Xeon X5650 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Xeon X5650 vs Xeon E5-620 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the Xeon X5650 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon X5650 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-620. Indeed, the Xeon X5650 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-620. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-620. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5650 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Xeon X5650 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 outputs less heat than Xeon X5650 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon X5650 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Xeon X5650 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon X5650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.