Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

1% slightly better overall score

2291 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

46% significantly better gaming score

2929 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

2085 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

2031 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1482 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

366 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

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

39% slightly higher turbo speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

288 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

654th of 1,089

662nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2010 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 E5-620 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-620 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 E5-620 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 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.