Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 159.00
$ 35.09 slightly less expensive
$ 194.09

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4526 points
4924 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6446 points
41% slightly better gaming score
4566 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3934 points
5084 points
29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3805 points
5215 points
37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

124.71 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
112.68 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5596 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5202 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1501 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
855 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5547 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5366 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1529 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
899 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
34% slightly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
49% significantly higher turbo speed
3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

387th of 1,089
355th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-10500 vs Xeon E5-2650 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10500 is faster than the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Also, the Core i5-10500 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 Core i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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