Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 196.40 significantly less expensive

$ 329.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

2407 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

4431 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

1840 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

1766 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

47.62 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

3379 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

1204 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

3325 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

1198 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

654th of 1,089

642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-2500K vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1220 v5 performs better than the Core i5-2500K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Also, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v5 outputs less heat than Core i5-2500K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.