Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Core i5-6500 vs Xeon E5-2650 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 is faster than the Core i5-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-6500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Core i5-6500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 v2 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 i5-6500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.