Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

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 E5-2620

Price

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$ 179.99

$ 27.16 slightly less expensive

$ 207.15

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3718 points

38% slightly better overall score

2694 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6040 points

88% significantly better gaming score

3212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3002 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

2534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2880 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

2503 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

83.18 points

113% significantly higher Blender score

38.93 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4908 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2793 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1369 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

459 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4868 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1902 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1396 points

257% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

390 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

49% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

63% significantly higher turbo speed

2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 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

384 GiB

200% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

460th of 1,089

591st 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 E5-2620 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8500 is faster than the Xeon E5-2620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2620 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i5-8500 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 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 i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.