Intel Core i5-11400T vs Intel Xeon E5-2660

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 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

$ 150.00
$ 149.95
$ 0.05 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3254 points
0.65% slightly better overall score
3233 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4938 points
28% slightly better gaming score
3840 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2740 points
3029 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2640 points
2968 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

105.96 points
75% significantly higher Blender score
60.42 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5472 points
98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2763 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1568 points
243% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
457 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.3 GHz
2.2 GHz
69% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed
3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
171% significantly lower TDP
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
40
100% 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
384 GiB
200% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

504th of 1,089
507th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-11400T vs Xeon E5-2660 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 is faster than the Core i5-11400T. Despite this, the Core i5-11400T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11400T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400T. Despite this, the Core i5-11400T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11400T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 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 i5-11400T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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