Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Core i5-11500 vs Xeon W-2125 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11500 beats the Xeon W-2125 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W-2125 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-11500 has significantly more cores than the Xeon W-2125. Indeed, the Core i5-11500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon W-2125. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2125. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-2125 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11500. Despite this, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W-2125 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 i5-11500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.