Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Xeon E5-2630

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2630

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 722.83 significantly less expensive

$ 856.38

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

2586 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

19% slightly better gaming score

3592 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

2259 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

2183 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

38.04 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

3117 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

510 points

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

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

448 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

32% slightly higher turbo speed

2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 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

384 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

654th of 1,089

610th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2012 February

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 E5-2630 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2630 is faster than the Core i5-2500K. Despite this, the Core i5-2500K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2630 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-2500K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-2500K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2500K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630. Also, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.