Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2

Core i5-8500 vs Xeon E5-1650 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8500 beats the Xeon E5-1650 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1650 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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 i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.