Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 149.95

$ 20.04 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3741 points

16% slightly better overall score

3203 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6024 points

41% slightly better gaming score

4260 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3030 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

2869 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

2793 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.12 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

75.06 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4729 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3929 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1312 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

901 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4858 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4121 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1380 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

947 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

2.8 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

30% slightly lower TDP

85 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

128 GiB

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

456th of 1,089

510th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-8400 vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8400 is faster than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.