Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel Xeon X5670

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

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Intel Xeon X5670

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 88.88

$ 81.11 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3741 points

19% slightly better overall score

3118 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6024 points

41% slightly better gaming score

4250 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3030 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

2751 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2906 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

2664 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

77.12 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

51.81 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4729 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2417 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1312 points

179% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4858 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2310 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1380 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

491 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

2.93 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

288 GiB

125% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

Identical

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

12 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

456th of 1,089

522nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-8400 vs Xeon X5670 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5670 is faster than the Core i5-8400. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon X5670 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5670 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8400. Despite this, the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5670 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Xeon X5670 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.