Intel Core i5-6500T vs Intel Xeon E5-430

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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

2250 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3223 points

2% slightly better gaming score

3133 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1288 points

1956 points

51% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1236 points

1887 points

52% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.50 points

391% significantly higher Blender score

9.25 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2781 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1179 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1003 points

166% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

376 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2827 points

171% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1042 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

356 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

2.66 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

128% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

775th of 1,089

673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6500T vs Xeon E5-430 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-430 performs better than the Core i5-6500T. Despite this, the Core i5-6500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-430 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500T. A Core i5-6500T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-430 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.