Intel Core i5-6600K vs Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3

Price

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$ 175.64

$ 99.00

$ 76.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2754 points

19% slightly better overall score

2307 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5105 points

20% slightly better gaming score

4249 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2098 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

1762 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2013 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

1691 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.62 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

45.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3989 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2832 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1400 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

871 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4043 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3291 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1429 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1157 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

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

91 W

84 W

8% slightly lower TDP

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

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

578th of 1,089

658th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-6600K vs Xeon E3-1226 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6600K is faster than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1226 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1226 v3. Also, the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1226 v3 outputs less heat than Core i5-6600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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