Intel Core i5-6600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 98.99

$ 230.96 significantly less expensive

$ 329.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2507 points

4% slightly better overall score

2407 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4645 points

4% slightly better gaming score

4431 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1909 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1831 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1766 points

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Core i5-6600 and the Xeon E3-1220 v5? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.76 points

0.29% slightly higher Blender score

47.62 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3416 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3379 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1249 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1204 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3562 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3325 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1198 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

3.3 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

23% slightly lower TDP

80 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

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

626th of 1,089

642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-6600 vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6600 is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v5 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Also, the Core i5-6600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v5 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E3-1220 v5 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 i5-6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.