Intel Core i5-6600T vs Intel Xeon E5-2640

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2640

Price

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$ 421.00

$ 65.00

$ 356.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2037 points

2849 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3823 points

0.08% slightly better gaming score

3820 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1547 points

2537 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1485 points

2462 points

65% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.95 points

47.31 points

0.77% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3085 points

3360 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1154 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

558 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3083 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2265 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1165 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

450 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

95 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

384 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

710th of 1,089

560th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-6600T vs Xeon E5-2640 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 beats the Core i5-6600T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-6600T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-6600T has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6600T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Core i5-6600T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6600T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 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 i5-6600T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.