Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 179.99
$ 69.96 significantly less expensive
$ 249.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3718 points
3728 points
0.27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6040 points
47% significantly better gaming score
4090 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3002 points
3611 points
20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2880 points
3586 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

83.18 points
122.88 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4908 points
5341 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1369 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
923 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4868 points
5264 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1396 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
963 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
20
233% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
32% slightly higher turbo speed
3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
30% slightly lower TDP
85 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

460th of 1,089
458th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-8500 vs Xeon E5-2630 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8500 is faster than the Xeon E5-2630 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2630 v4 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v4 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630 v4. Also, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2630 v4 CPU because of its slightly 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.

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