Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Core i5-8500 vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 beats the Core i5-8500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-8500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.