Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Core i5-6500 vs Xeon E5-620 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6500 beats the Xeon E5-620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-620 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-620 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Core i5-6500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-620 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-6500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Core i5-6500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.