Intel Core i5-6600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Price

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$ 98.99

$ 90.96 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2507 points

2544 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4645 points

14% slightly better gaming score

4070 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1909 points

2091 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1831 points

2009 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.76 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

39.80 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.30 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

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

618th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

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

Core i5-6600 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6600 beats the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6600. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E3-1230 V2 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.