Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 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
$ 96.59 significantly less expensive
$ 255.59

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4526 points
5860 points
29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6446 points
32% slightly better gaming score
4866 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3934 points
6204 points
57% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3805 points
6340 points
66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

124.71 points
192.94 points
54% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5596 points
7657 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1501 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1060 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5547 points
7404 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1529 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1086 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
28
133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
123% significantly lower TDP
145 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
263rd 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 E5-2697 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 is faster than the Core i5-10500. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has 14 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 E5-2697 v3. Also, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Core i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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