Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1603

Price

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$ 1918.00

$ 752.00

$ 1166.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1438 points

1564 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2667 points

2883 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1096 points

1194 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1053 points

1145 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.90 points

74% significantly higher Blender score

22.30 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2685 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1999 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

970 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

567 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2777 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1475 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1025 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

468 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

826th of 1,089

793rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300HQ vs Xeon E5-1603 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1603 performs better than the Core i5-6300HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300HQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A Core i5-6300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-6300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.