Intel Core i5-6500TE vs Intel Xeon W3550

Core i5-6500TE vs Xeon W3550 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6500TE beats the Xeon W3550 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3550 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon W3550 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W3550 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500TE. Also, the Xeon W3550 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6500TE CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3550 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Xeon W3550 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.