Intel Core i5-6500T vs Intel Xeon E5-520

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

1% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3223 points

29% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1288 points

1418 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1236 points

1363 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.50 points

111% significantly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2781 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1691 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1003 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2827 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1042 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 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

10% slightly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

128% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

144 GiB

125% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

775th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2009 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 E5-520 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6500T beats the Xeon E5-520 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6500T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i5-6500T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6500T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 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. For instance, the Core i5-6500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.