Intel Core i5-6500T vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1700 points

2735 points

60% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3223 points

4274 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1288 points

2280 points

77% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1236 points

2192 points

77% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.50 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

40.70 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2781 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2284 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1003 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

592 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2827 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2244 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1042 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

611 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3.8 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

271% significantly lower TDP

130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

375 GiB

485% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

775th of 1,089

582nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-6500T vs Xeon E5-1620 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 is faster than the Core i5-6500T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6500T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-1620 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6500T. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6500T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 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 i5-6500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.