Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 19.96 slightly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3741 points

3996 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6024 points

42% significantly better gaming score

4213 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3030 points

3900 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points

3849 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.12 points

129.03 points

67% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4729 points

5920 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1312 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

975 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4858 points

5959 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1380 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

985 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

233% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 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

436th 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 E5-2660 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 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 E5-2660 v3 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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.