Intel Core i5-6600K vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Price

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$ 175.64

$ 119.95

$ 55.69 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2754 points

2% slightly better overall score

2681 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5105 points

20% slightly better gaming score

4224 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2098 points

2223 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2013 points

2134 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.62 points

61.49 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3989 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3546 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1400 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1027 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4043 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3886 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1429 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1093 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

3.5 GHz

Identical

3.5 GHz

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

91 W

53% significantly lower TDP

140 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

768 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

578th of 1,089

595th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR4-1333

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 E5-1620 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6600K beats the Xeon E5-1620 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has more threads. According to our data, the Core i5-6600K and Xeon E5-1620 v3 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6600K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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.