Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Xeon E5-1660

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

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Intel Xeon E5-1660

Price

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$ 179.99

$ 434.30 significantly less expensive

$ 614.29

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3718 points

1% slightly better overall score

3673 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6040 points

24% slightly better gaming score

4854 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3002 points

3294 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2880 points

3198 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

83.18 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

65.07 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4908 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4536 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1369 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

761 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4868 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3040 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1396 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

618 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

3 GHz

3.3 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 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

256 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

460th of 1,089

465th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2012 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 i5-8500 vs Xeon E5-1660 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8500 performs better than the Xeon E5-1660. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-1660 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 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 E5-1660 CPU because of its significantly 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 i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.