Intel Core i5-6400 vs Intel Xeon E5-430

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

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Intel Xeon E5-430

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 29.96 slightly less expensive

$ 129.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2127 points

2250 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3959 points

26% slightly better gaming score

3133 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1617 points

1956 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1551 points

1887 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.92 points

331% significantly higher Blender score

9.25 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2948 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1179 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1079 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

376 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3046 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1116 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

356 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

23% slightly lower TDP

80 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

12 MiB

1100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

699th of 1,089

673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6400 vs Xeon E5-430 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-430 performs better than the Core i5-6400. Despite this, the Core i5-6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-6400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-430. A Core i5-6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-430 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-430 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6400

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 i5-6400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.