Intel Core i5-7500T vs Intel Xeon X5687

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5687

Price

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$ 130.43

$ 59.52 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1862 points

1892 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3552 points

2% slightly better gaming score

3477 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1406 points

1446 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1350 points

1388 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.76 points

42.49 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

3.59 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3.86 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

271% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

288 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

12 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

749th of 1,089

740th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-7500T vs Xeon X5687 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5687 beats the Core i5-7500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-7500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7500T. Also, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7500T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5687 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon X5687 also has significantly 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 i5-7500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.