Intel Core i5-6600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Core i5-6600 vs Xeon E5-2650 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 beats the Core i5-6600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-6600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-6600 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Core i5-6600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.