Intel Core i5-11600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Core i5-11600K vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 beats the Core i5-11600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core i5-11600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11600K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2699 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.