Intel Core i5-11400F vs Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 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

$ 150.09
$ 1814.61 significantly less expensive
$ 1964.70

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5669 points
5777 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8320 points
89% significantly better gaming score
4385 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4844 points
6307 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4676 points
6615 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.47 points
30% slightly higher Blender score
98.72 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7380 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5077 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1895 points
232% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
570 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7590 points
140% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3155 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1979 points
314% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
477 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

2.6 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
37% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
24
20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
384 GiB
200% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

277th of 1,089
270th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-11400F vs Xeon E5-2470 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 is faster than the Core i5-11400F. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-11400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2470 v2. Also, the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11400F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2470 v2 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 i5-11400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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