Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Core i5-8400 vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster than the Core i5-8400. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-8400. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.