Intel Core i5-650 vs Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3

Core i5-650 vs Xeon E5-2676 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 beats the Core i5-650 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-650 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-650. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has 12 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-650. It also has more threads than the Core i5-650. A Core i5-650 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2676 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i5-650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.