Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

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

$ 140.00
$ 109.95 significantly less expensive
$ 249.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5920 points
1% slightly better overall score
5823 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8284 points
54% significantly better gaming score
5354 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5201 points
6031 points
15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5041 points
6170 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

158.65 points
75% significantly higher Blender score
90.62 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8131 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4156 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2100 points
220% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
655 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7951 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3992 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2104 points
225% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
647 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

2.8 GHz
3.3 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
100% significantly lower TDP
130 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
768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 1,111
279th of 1,111

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2013 August

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 i5-11600 vs Xeon E5-2667 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600 is faster than the Xeon E5-2667 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2667 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11600. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2667 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 i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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