Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 30.00

$ 103.55 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

1% slightly better overall score

2286 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

18% slightly better gaming score

3603 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

1895 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

1822 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

49.31 points

42% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

2305 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

633 points

0.64% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

2380 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

0.78% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

645 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

256 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

654th of 1,089

665th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-2500K vs Xeon E5-1620 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 is faster than the Core i5-2500K. Despite this, the Core i5-2500K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500K. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-2500K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v2 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.