Intel Core i5-13500HX vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7843 points

4% slightly better overall score

7502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9212 points

41% slightly better gaming score

6488 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7473 points

7892 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7441 points

8110 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

219.22 points

268.08 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

42% many more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

2.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

139% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

11.5 MiB

20 MiB

73% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

27.5 MiB

14% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

162nd of 1,114

175th of 1,114

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5

Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-13500HX vs Xeon Gold 6138 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13500HX performs better than the Xeon Gold 6138. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6138 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6138 has many more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i5-13500HX that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13500HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6138. Also, the Core i5-13500HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Xeon Gold 6138 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500HX. The Xeon Gold 6138 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-13500HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.