Intel Core i5-6400 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2127 points
2198 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3959 points
38% slightly better gaming score
2867 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1617 points
1984 points
22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1551 points
1931 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.92 points
54% significantly higher Blender score
25.76 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3046 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1482 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1116 points
204% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
366 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
24% slightly higher turbo speed
2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
23% slightly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
288 GiB
350% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
51100% significantly more L3 cache
0.01 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

706th of 1,100
690th of 1,100

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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