Intel Core i5-6500TE 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

2031 points

21% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3776 points

51% significantly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1545 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1483 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1363 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2515 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1691 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

783 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2800 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1078 points

197% 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

2.30 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

30% 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

711th 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 November

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 i5-6500TE vs Xeon E5-520 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-6500TE performs better than the Xeon E5-520. 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6500TE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i5-6500TE has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6500TE 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-520 also has slightly 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 i5-6500TE has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.