Intel Core i5-6600K vs Intel Xeon W3680

Core i5-6600K vs Xeon W3680 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W3680 is faster than the Core i5-6600K. Despite this, the Core i5-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon W3680 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-6600K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3680. Also, the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6600K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3680 CPU because of its much lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon W3680 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-6600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.