Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4

Core i5-8400 vs Xeon E5-2630 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v4 beats the Core i5-8400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-8400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v4. Also, the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2630 v4 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.