Intel Core i5-6600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4

Price

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$ 175.64

$ 5051.36 significantly less expensive

$ 5227.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2754 points

4813 points

74% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5105 points

5729 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2098 points

4521 points

115% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2013 points

4429 points

120% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.62 points

68.37 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3989 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3758 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1400 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

741 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4043 points

4183 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1429 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1122 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

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

91 W

48% significantly lower TDP

135 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

578th of 1,089

366th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR4-1600

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 E5-2637 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2637 v4 is faster than the Core i5-6600K. Despite this, the Core i5-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2637 v4 has more threads. According to our data, the Core i5-6600K and Xeon E5-2637 v4 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 E5-2637 v4 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 i5-6600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.