Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 65.40 significantly less expensive

$ 198.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

31% slightly better overall score

1767 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

53% significantly better gaming score

2784 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

1446 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

1388 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

2526 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

461 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

2743 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

617 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

73% significantly higher clock speed

1.9 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

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

768 GiB

2299% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

654th of 1,089

763rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-2500K vs Xeon E5-2609 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500K is faster than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-2500K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2609 v3. The Xeon E5-2609 v3 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.

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. For instance, the Core i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.