Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2

Core i5-2500K vs Xeon E5-2630 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 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 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-2500K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-2500K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v2. Also, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 v2 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.