Intel Core i5-6600 vs Intel Xeon W3680

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Price

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$ 98.99
$ 80.74 significantly less expensive
$ 179.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2508 points
2952 points
17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4649 points
14% slightly better gaming score
4047 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1910 points
2596 points
35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1832 points
2512 points
37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.76 points
68.56 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3416 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2622 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1249 points
121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
564 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3562 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2543 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
550 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.33 GHz
0.94% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
100% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
166% significantly more supported memory
24 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
12 MiB
1100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

632nd of 1,093
549th of 1,093

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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