Intel Core i5-6600K vs Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6

Core i5-6600K vs Xeon E3-1535M v6 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1535M v6 is faster than the Core i5-6600K. Despite this, the Core i5-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E3-1535M v6 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1535M v6. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1535M v6 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1535M v6 outputs less heat than Core i5-6600K thanks to a significantly 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 E3-1535M v6 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 i5-6600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.