Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 5093.45 significantly less expensive

$ 5227.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

4888 points

110% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

5848 points

36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

4576 points

157% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

4485 points

163% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

68.37 points

98% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

3758 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

741 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

4183 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

1122 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

Identical

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

42% slightly lower TDP

135 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

674th of 1,118

373rd of 1,118

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2016 February

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 E5-2637 v4 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2637 v4 performs better 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 E5-2637 v4 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2637 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500K. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i5-2500K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2637 v4 CPU because of its 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.